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The Controller's Guide to Financial Statement Preparation and Presentation 2.5 Credits

Feb 06, 2024, 02:30 PM ET

The Controller's Guide to Financial Statement Preparation and Presentation 2.5 Credits

The Controllership Series

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Feb 06, 2024, 02:30 PM ET

Learning Objective

  • To explain the purpose of the FS.
  • To explore how to prepare a BS, IS, statement of SE, and SCF.
  • To identify basic analytic ratios for the BS, IS, and SCF.
  • To analyze the components of notes to the FS.
  • To identify the need for and uses of supplemental information to the FS.

Course Overview

One of the important roles of any member of the financial team, including the controller, may be involved in the preparation of the company's financial statements. Even if that responsibility falls within the office of the CFO, the controller, and other finance personnel must understand how their transitions recorded impact the financial statements. 

Financial statements (or financial reports) are formal records of the financial activities and position of a business, person, or other entity. Relevant financial information is presented in a structured manner and in a form that is easy to understand. 

They typically include four basic financial statements accompanied by a management discussion and analysis:

  1. A balance sheet or statement of financial position, reports on a company's assets, liabilities, and owner's equity at a given point in time.
  2. An income statement may have varying names including a profit and loss report (P&L report), a statement of comprehensive income, or a statement of revenue & expenses.  This report is on a company's income, expenses, and profits over a stated period. A profit and loss statement provides information on the operation of the enterprise. These include sales and the various expenses incurred during the stated period
  3. A statement of changes in equity or “statement of equity” also called “statement of retained earnings” reports on the changes in equity of the company over a stated period.
  4. A cash flow statement reports on a company's cash flow, particularly its operating, investing, and financing activities over a stated period.

A balance sheet represents a single point in time, where the income statement, the statement of changes in equity, and the cash flow statement each represent activities over a stated period.

For large corporations, these statements may be complex and may include an extensive set of footnotes to the financial statements, management discussion and analysis, and supplementary information. The notes typically describe each item on the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement in further detail. Notes to financial statements are considered an integral part of the financial statements.

Join this CPE Accounting Webinar of our Controllership Series to understand the preparation and presentation of financial statements.

Our courses on IFRS | GAAP might interest you. 

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Course Level

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Pre-requisites

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Lynn Fountain has over 39 years of experience spanning public accounting, corporate accounting and consulting. 20 years of her experience has been working in the areas of internal and external auditing and risk management. She is a subject matter expert in multiple fields including internal audit, ethics, fraud evaluations, Sarbanes-Oxley, enterprise risk management, governance, financial management and compliance.  Lynn has held two Chief Audit Executive (CAE) positions for international companies.   In one of her roles as CAE, she assisted in the investigation of a multi-million-dollar fraud scheme perpetrated by a vendor that spanned 7 years and implicated 20 employees.  The fraud was formally investigation by the FBI and resulted in 5 indictments estimating a $13M fraud loss.

Ms. Fountain is currently engaged in her own consulting and training practice.  She has successfully executed on several consulting assignments spanning areas of accounting, risk, ERM and internal audit.  She is a highly sought-after trainer and international speaker and has produced hundreds of courses delivered through seminars, conferences and on-demand training.  She is the author of three separate technical books.  

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Ms. Fountain obtained her BSBA from Pittsburg State University and her MBA from Washburn University in Kansas. She has her CPA, CGMA, CRMA credentials. 


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Anantharamakrishnan Balakrishnan, EA

Preparation and Presentation of Financial Statements are very important for Controller and it includes preparation of Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Foot Notes and Financial Ratios. This webinar and Handout is very helpful in understanding the subject matter with lots of examples and illustrations included in it for anyone could grasp and understand the subject matter very well just concentrating on the Lecture. Also the Cheat Sheet for preparation of cash flow statements are useful tools for construction of Cash Flow statements based on the Logics mentioned on the Cheat Sheet. I really enjoyed watching the Webinar which was almost for 2 hours but i didn't realize how soon it got finished as I was totally engrossed in listening the Lecture and learning the core subject matter!

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Rory Oconnor, CPA (US)

Informative session that dove into the complete process of creating the financial statements as well as what metrics to use to look at varying types of businesses. The presenter was well spoken and obviously knew her material well.

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