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Course Details

Course Information
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    On-Demand

  • signal_cellular_alt Difficulty Level

    Beginner

  • work Practice Area

    Professional Skills

Date & Time
  • event Date

    Wednesday, May 1, 2024

  • schedule Time

    1:00 PM E.T.

  • timer Program Length

    60 minutes

Credit Information
$147.00

This course is $0 with these passes:

PS
ALL

This course will help legal professionals to better understand the methodologies and techniques relating to valuation of a company’s assets.

Faculty

Mike Sims
President
BARBRI, Inc

Mr. Sims is a 26-year veteran in legal education.  He works closely with leading law school administrators, faculty, and students to improve law school and bar exam results.

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Description

Legal professionals are expected to have basic financial skills and are encouraged to understand budgeting as part of project management in order to better serve clients and their respective organizations. This course is designed to provide lawyers and other legal support professionals a baseline of financial knowledge and skill to read, interpret and act upon financial documents. Financial literacy is a fundamental skill of the modern legal professional today, and a working knowledge of finance is imperative in meeting client expectations and practicing at the highest levels of the law.

Outline

  1. Valuation Basics
  2. Valuation Methods
  3. Cost of Capital - Discount Rate
  4. AOL Time Warner Case Study
  5. Exxon Mobil Case Study

Benefits

This course is part of a six course series in which students learn everything from the basic elements of finance to advanced concepts in financial statements.  These courses were created by Reuben Advani, a Yale and Wharton Business School educated financial expert, author and entrepreneur with many years of experience in finance and education.