Reynolds Center offers email course on financial reporting

Journalists interested in better covering public companies’ financial performance can receive this free course in their inbox.

The Reynolds Center is offering a seven-day email course, „Introduction to Covering Financials,” which can be taken at any time.

The course instructor is professor Steven Orpurt, who teaches corporate governance and sustainability in the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University.

Topics include: how to read financial statements and what financial statements measure; conservatism in accounting; understanding the links between income statements and balance sheets; reading statements of cash flows and how to contrast cash flows with earnings non-GAAP earnings metrics; and where to find financial information about public companies.

To receive the email course, sign up here.

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(sursa: International Journalists’ Network)