Corporate Finance Fundamentals

Overview

To excel as a tax practitioner in an increasingly global marketplace, you must familiarize yourself with the preparation of tax forms for clients conducting foreign transactions or with assets in international accounts. Gain a thorough understanding of foreign information return reporting requirements and valuable techniques to determine whether or not your clients may encounter foreign income tax problems. Attain a working knowledge of IRS and Department of Treasury foreign information returns to represent clients and comply with Circular 230 effectively. All essential concepts will be discussed in light of the resurrected IRS foreign voluntary disclosure program, which reduces the foreign information return burden.

Highlights

• Understand what capital investment is and why it increases a company's assets
• Learn common metrics used by companies to evaluate various investments
• Learn the business life cycle and how it impacts the funding life cycle
• Understand the types & sources of equity & debt available to companies
• Learn how to minimize a company's weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
• Understand the advantages & disadvantages of the different ways a company can return capital

Objectives

• Understand how to select projects that will create value for shareholders
• Learn how to use capital financing to optimize the capital structure of a company
• Select a method of returning capital to company shareholders

Preparation

Attendees should have a basic understanding of accounting fundamentals and valuation.

Notice

This is a self-study/on demand course offered by a 3rd party vendor and will NOT be accessible in the My Upcoming CPE section of the ISCPA website. Course access information will be emailed directly to you by CalCPA. The course expires one year from the purchase date. Format = Online Self-Study.