The Bankruptcy: How It Happened with the Financial Statements, the Lessons, and the Solutions

Includes a Case Study to apply to your own business or one you want to acquire, with how to compute the final, weighted value of an actual company.

Includes two Case Studies, financial spread sheet, and a comparative analysis of an actual company to help you put it all together.

To help you prepare a complete company profile, a vital tool for financing, valuing, and selling a business, and to identify new opportunities for growth and improved profitability. Includes a comprehensive Case Study of an actual business.

Purchasing all or part of another business demands careful analysis. This Report provides a detailed acquisition guideline, and a Case Study to illustrate what kinds of things can go wrong and the consequences when they do.

How to use your company’s balance sheet for loans that offer more flexibility, more capital, and better repayment terms, especially for cyclical or fast-growing businesses, or even troubled companies.

How to avoid the severe tax implications of loans from your company that the IRS views as taxable compensation or a dividend. Applies to owners, partners, board members, employees, family members, and affiliated businesses.

For new and refinanced loans. How to compare and get the best loan terms by calculating and knowing its effective interest rate. Includes tables, formulas, example of the calculation, and a review of all tax deductions to which you're entitled.

How to ensure that any investment today makes economic sense for the future. Includes two Case Studies as a buyer and as a seller: What is the desired return? And what should the net cash inflow be to obtain that return?

How to use debt, common stock, preferred stock, and convertible securities to get needed capital for equipment purchases, working capital, debt repayment, and expansion. Includes Case Studies on each financing method and sources of capital.

A review of all factors to be considered before financing or refinancing a personal, business, or investment mortgage, with an analysis of all costs associated with financing and refinancing.

How to reduce portfolio risk by fully understanding the relationship between interest rates and the prices of short- and long-term securities, with ideas to reduce risk and an example of the impact on the prices of long-term securities at various interest rates.

What it takes to make a good real estate investment and what it takes to be a good real estate investor. Also: Cash flow and refinancing examples, property management and tenants, company-owned facilities, and your home as an investment.