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Critical Financial Statement Analysis from a Lawyers Perspective with Ed Adams


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Edward S. Adams
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In brief, financial statement analysis provides tools for understanding the financial performance and relevant metrics of an entity under examination.  By performing financial statement analysis one can compare an entity’s previous performance to its present performance and can compare performance from one entity to another or across industries or segments.  Financial statement analysis provides the practicing lawyer with tools to understand a client’s business so that he or she can better counsel and serve their client and compete in an environment where other attorneys seek to do the same. 

 

Outline

 

I.Overview of the Financial Statement Analysis

a.What is it?

b.How Does it Work?

c.How is it and Can it be Used?

II.Key Financial Statement Ratios

a.Short-Term Liquidity

b.Activities and Turnover

c.Capital Structure and Long-Term Risk

d.Profitability and Operational Efficiency

III. Conducting Financial Statement Analysis of Public Companies

a.Target Corporation

b.Google

c.Tesla

 

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The number of years that Ed Adams has been a faculty member with P.E.G.

145

The total number of programs presented by Ed.

8,580

Attorneys who have attended an Ed Adams presentation.

Edward S. Adams is the Howard E. Buhse professor of finance and law, co-director of the Kommerstad Center for Business Law And Entrepreneurship, and director of CLE Programs at the University of Minnesota Law School, where he specializes in corporate law, corporate finance, secured transactions, commercial paper and bankruptcy.

Following graduation cum laude from the University of Chicago Law School (where he served as managing editor of the law review), Adams clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and worked in the Chicago office of Latham and Watkins.

Author & Scholar

He is the author of 15 books and more than 30 articles on business-related issues, the two-time recipient of the University of Minnesota Law School’s Stanley V. Kinyon Teacher of the Year Award, a 1997 M.B.A. graduate of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota, and a 1998 Vance K. Opperman Research Scholar, and a co-holder of the 1999 Julius E. Davis Chair in Law.

Practitioner

As an attorney, business advisor and consultant, Adams has more than $1 billion in transactional experience in public and private offerings of equity and debt, mergers and acquisitions of public and closely held corporations, loan restructurings, receivables financing, structured finance, commercial transactions, and bankruptcy liquidations and reorganizations.

Board Member

Adams has served on numerous private and public company boards of directors and acted as chairman of the Noteholders Committee of one of the largest steel industry bankruptcy reorganizations in American history, as well as a legal adviser to a group which sought to acquire one of America’s largest textile manufacturers.

Giving Back

Adams co-founded a project to provide free legal services to members of the community in New York, was a founding member of a project to provide free legal services to families of servicepersons serving in the Persian Gulf, and created a program at the University of Minnesota Law School to introduce disadvantaged high school students to potential career opportunities in the legal field. He is a prolific lecturer who has spoken to legal, business and community groups throughout the United States and the world on a variety of legal and business topics.