Business School Insights for Attorneys: Part I

Agenda / Content Covered

1. Fundamental Accounting Concepts and Financial Statements for Attorneys
   10:00 - 11:30, Jay B. Abrams
   1. Basic Accounting Concepts Your Clients Need You to Know
   2. Analyzing and Interpreting Financial Statements
   3. Key Business Performance Metrics: Financial Ratios, Operating Ratios, and More
   4. Spotting Fraud and Other Financial Red Flags
2. Understanding Corporate Finance
   11:45 - 1:15, Jay B. Abrams
   1. The Language of Finance: Essential Concepts and Terminology
   2. Understanding Business Valuation Methods
   3. Determining Cost of Capital
   4. Lease vs. Buy Considerations
   5. Securities Laws 101
   6. Capital Formation and Deal Structuring
   7. Understanding Financial Instruments
   8. Corporate Financing Strategies and Best Practices

Accreditation Details:

Jay B. Abrams , ASA, CPA, MBA, specializes in valuing privately-held businesses. Mr. Abrams is the president of Abrams Valuation Group, Inc., a business valuation firm with offices in North Hollywood, California and New York. He is the author of two books published by McGraw-Hill: Quantitative Business Valuation: A Mathematical Approach for Today's Professionals and How to Value Your Business and Increase its Potential. The second edition of Quantitative Business Valuation is published by John Wiley & Sons. Mr. Abrams is nearly finished with a book on the valuation of S Corporations and other non-tax entities. He has published several quantitative articles in the American Society of Appraisers' Valuation Journal, Business Valuation Review and The Valuation Examiner. Mr. Abrams has invented several valuation models and approximately 150 valuation formulas. Plaintiff's economist used Abrams Valuation Group, Inc.'s economic components model for the discount for lack of marketability in Maris Distributing Co. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc., 302 F.3d 1207 (11th Cir. 2002). He earned his M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago, where he also took graduate courses in the Department of Economics. Mr. Abrams earned his B.S. degree from California State University. He has taught business valuation as continuing legal education in many law firms and seminars at the University of Southern California, University of California at San Diego Extension, the University of San Diego Law School for U.S. Tax Court Justice David Laro, USC Graduate School of Business for Professor Thomas Taulli, and California State University at Northridge Business School for Professor Vincentiu Covrig.