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Why EBITDA Doesn't Spell Cash Flow, But What Does? 1 Credit

Mar 04, 2024, 09:30 AM ET

Why EBITDA Doesn't Spell Cash Flow, But What Does? 1 Credit

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Mar 04, 2024, 09:30 AM ET

Learning Objective

  • To analyze how EBITDA is calculated and why it is used as a measure of cash flow.
  • To discuss why EBITDA is not an accurate measure of cash flow. 
  • To identify how to use two better measures of cash flow for assessing your borrowers’ repayment ability—operating cash flow and free cash flow.

Course Overview

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

The challenge here is to explain what we mean when we say cash flow. In recent decades bankers have seen several top contenders for the cash flow definitional sweepstakes—traditional cash flow, operating cash flow, and EBITDA. The ascendant definition has been EBITDA, largely because of its popularity with the investment community, and its use there has given it a certain cache among corporate bankers and commercial lenders.

EBITDA is a popular measure of cash flow, but it is not accurate, and bankers and investors who rely on it as a reliable indicator of repayment ability will be deeply disappointed. 

This CPE webinar includes several examples and a case study to illustrate why EBITDA is flawed and how to apply better cash flow tools.

Major Topics Covered in this Webinar:

  • Definition of EBITDA
  • Origins of EBITDA—its relationship to traditional cash flow (TCF)
  • Problems with TCF, EBITDA, and adjusted EBITDA
  • SEC crackdown on EBITDA and adjusted EBITDA
  • Alternatives to EBITDA—Operating Cash Flow, Net Cash after Operation, Net Cash Income, Cash after Debt Amortization,  and Free Cash Flow.
  • Case Study

This CPE Finance Webinar will explain why EBITDA does not measure cash flow and what more accurate measures are available.

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Group Internet Based

Pre-requisites

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About Instructor

Dev Strischek
Dev Strischek

Principal, Devon Risk Advisory Group, LLC

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A frequent speaker, instructor, advisor and writer on credit risk and commercial banking topics and issues, Dev is principal of Devon Risk Advisory Group and engages in consulting, speaking and training on a wide range of risk, credit, and lending topics. As former SVP and senior credit policy officer at SunTrust Bank, Atlanta, he was responsible for developing, implementing, and administering credit policies for SunTrust's wholesale lines of business--commercial, commercial real estate, corporate investment banking, capital markets, business banking and private wealth management. He also spent three years as managing director and credit approver in SunTrust's Florida commercial lending and corporate investment banking areas, respectively. Prior to SunTrust, Dev was chief credit officer for Barnett Bank's Palm Beach region. Besides stints at other banks in Florida, Kansas City, and Ohio, Dev's experiences outside of banking include CFO of a Honolulu construction company, combat engineer officer in the U.S. Army, and college economics instructor in Hawaii, Missouri, and Florida. A graduate of Ohio State University and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking, he earned his M.B.A. from the University of Hawaii.

Dev serves as an instructor at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking, the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking, and the American Bankers Association's (ABA) Commercial Lending School. His school, conference, and workshop audiences have included participants drawn from the ABA, RMA, OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, FFIEC, SBA, the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA) and the AICPA.  He worked with RMA to develop, implement, and teach its Critical Thinking course.

Dev has written about credit risk management, financial analysis and related subjects for the ABA's Commercial Insights, the Risk Management Association's RMA Journal, the IMA’s Strategic Finance and other business professional journals. He is the author of Analyzing Construction Contractors and its related RMA workshop. A past national chair of RMA and former Florida Chapter president, Dev serves as a member of the RMA Journal's advisory board.  He represented the banking industry as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board’s Private Company Council, which reviews and recommends changes to existing and proposed generally accepted accounting principles that make them more cost-effective for privately held companies.  Finally, he has consulted on credit risk issues with banks in Morocco, Egypt, and Angola through the US State Department's Financial Service Volunteer Corps (FSVC).

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