Seminar on analyzing financial statements

How to make sense of financial reports is the typical challenge faced by decisionmakers. While many can read financial statements, only a few can correctly interpret and analyze the numbers to make the right decisions in board and management meetings.

To help you master financial statements, the Center for Global Best Practices will host a special program entitled “How to really read financial statements for board directors and decisionmakers,” on July 26 and 27, at the Manila Marriott Hotel, Pasay City.

This is to help business owners, board directors and management make sense of the annual reports, income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flows. You will be able to spot critical issues and ask smart questions that business owners and management need to know.

For a complete list of best practices programs visit www.cgbp.org or call Manila (+63 2) 8427148/59 and (+63 2) 556-8968/69, Baguio (+63 74) 4232914, Cebu (+63 32) 512-3106 or 07, or Legazpi (+63 52) 7360148.

This special program will feature one of the “Most Accurate Forecasters” in the world, Jonathan Ravelas. He is also the chief market strategist of the largest commercial bank in the Philippines – BDO. His valuable insights and analysis on the financial performance of companies and the equities market are well sought after, with his commentaries appearing in Asian Wall Street Journal, Business World and Philippine Daily Inquirer newspapers and televised interviews on ANC, Bloomberg and BBC.

This will also feature Mary Jane Rosales, CPA, CIA, former president of The Institute of Internal Auditors in the Philippines (2008). She has a mastery of finance, having spent most of her career handling controllership and risk management functions in Petron Corp.