Instructor: Dr. Kasi Ramanathan; Professor and Chairman, Department of Accounting, University of Washington Business School

Dr. Ramanthan is an internationally recognized expert in the application of accounting and financial techniques for shareholder value based organizational planning and control. His major publications include Accounting for Managerial Decision Making and Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations.  This sessions program elements will include:

Tracking and Managing Shareholder Value Creation

• Learn to use financial statements as an ROE Scoreboard - to plan and measure value creation in business

• Enhance your understanding financial models and measure

• Learn to differentiate between profits and cash flows, and between book values and market values.

• Learn to use corporate annual reports to analyze business performance

Managing Profitability, Cash Flow, and Growth

• Understand how typical business decisions affect profitability and cash flow

• Appreciate why profitable growing firms go broke

• Learn to plan and manage profitable growth

Managing capacity, bottlenecks, waste, and profitability

• Enhance your understanding of price, cost, and volume interrelationships
• Production planning and product profitability analysis                                              

Valuation Models

• Learn to use cash flow modes for estimating the value creation potential of:
  • capital expenditures
  • corporate strategic plans

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