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Finance & Economics
Beyond the Basics: Financial Ratios You Might Be Overlooking (Rebroadcast with Live Q&A - CPA Crossings)
DELIVERY FORMAT
Online Virtual
SEMINAR TYPE
PD Seminar
Overview
Understanding your company’s financial health requires more than just traditional metrics. This webinar is designed to reveal deeper insights through advanced, underutilized financial ratios. In this session, accounting and finance professionals will explore metrics such as operating leverage, free cash flow yield, and margin of safety-tools that go beyond standard ratios to deliver nuanced perspectives on profitability, risk exposure, and operational efficiency.
This event will be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event. |
Applicable for
Financial Analysts and Accountants enhancing their financial analysis skills. Business Leaders seeking insights into operational efficiency and cash flow. Investors and Analysts applying advanced ratios for better valuations.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to:
- apply financial ratios to assess profitability, operational efficiency, and risk exposure
- calculate key metrics, including operating leverage, margin of safety, and free cash flow yield, to evaluate financial performance
- analyze cost behavior to determine its impact on break-even points and financial stability
- differentiate between traditional ratios and underutilized metrics for a more comprehensive financial analysis
- select appropriate financial ratios to compare company performance and support strategic decision-making
Content
- understanding cost behavior and its impact on decision-making
- contribution margin and break-even analysis
- margin of safety and its role in risk management
- operating leverage and financial sensitivity
- analyzing asset turnover for operational efficiency
- cash conversion cycle and working capital insights
- free cash flow yield as a valuation tool
Presenter
Eric Knight, CPA, DBAWhat is CPA Crossings?
CPA Crossings is a global leader in online professional education for CPAs and other financial professionals. Established in 2001, CPA Crossings offers scheduled webinars on a range of topics including ethics, fraud, business, personal development, technology, and other fields of study. All of these courses are developed and presented by a team of 60 instructors, recognized as experts in their respective fields of study. Note that the titles from CPA Crossings comprise both live webinars and archived recordings.Webinar FAQs
What training platform will be used?
Webinars are conducted using an online conferencing and training software application called WebEx. The client software downloads automatically after you log in to your WebEx meeting and requires no additional installation. For your first webinar, please allow a few minutes for it to load.How do I get the login information?
Once you are registered online, you will receive an email confirmation listing the WebEx instructions, link and password. This email will come from sender CPA Crossings. If you do not receive this email immediately after your registration has been processed, first check your spam folder. If the link is not in this folder, call the CPA Crossings Webinar Hotline at 877.370.2220 ext. 1 for assistance.How do I hear the audio portion of my online training?
Once you click on the link to join the webinar, you will see a pop-up window to "Join teleconference”. Your first option is to use the telephone. Dial the number provided, enter the training session number and your attendee ID by phone, as provided in the pop-up window when prompted, then click OK. The second option is to join using the computer to listen to the audio through your computer speakers. Once you click that option, it will ask you to do an audio test, then prompt you to join the audio conference.How early may I login to my online training session?
Participants can join webinars up to 30 minutes before the webinar start time. If you are a first-time WebEx user, please join the session at least 15 minutes prior to start time to allow for WebEx configuration.Will I receive a certificate of completion?
A polling question will be asked approximately every 15 minutes to confirm that all participants are still in attendance. A participant must answer 70% of the polling questions in order to receive full credit for the webinar. You will receive your record of attendance via e-mail within 24 hours of completion of the webinar.
For more webinar FAQs, please visit their website here.
Disclosure Notice
In order to register you to the webinars hosted by CPA Crossings, it is necessary for CPABC to provide your name and email address to CPA Crossings. This information will be used solely for the purposes of providing you with CPA Crossings webinar(s)’ confirmations and reminders.
Please be advised that this course is hosted by a third-party education provider whose server may be located outside of Canada, so information such as the registrant's name and email address (where needed) may be stored there.
Course Dates & Registration
Course Details
Cost
$55
Members
$65
Non-Members
Eligible Hours
- 1
- CPD Hours
- 0
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
Passport
- 2
- Credits
Special Notes
Upon one business day after registration and payment, you will receive an email from CPA Crossings (messenger@webex.com) with instructions on how to join the session. CPA Crossings will also email follow up confirmations one day in advance and one hour in advance of your training. Registration deadline is two full business days prior to seminar date.
Interested in similar content?
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.
Finance & Economics
Beyond the Basics: Financial Ratios You Might Be Overlooking (Rebroadcast with Live Q&A - CPA Crossings)
DELIVERY FORMAT
Online Virtual
SEMINAR TYPE
PD Seminar
Course Details
Cost
$55
Members
$65
Non-Members
Eligible Hours
- 1
- CPD Hours
- 0
- Ethics Hours
- 0
- AML Hours
Passport
- 2
- Credits
Overview
Understanding your company’s financial health requires more than just traditional metrics. This webinar is designed to reveal deeper insights through advanced, underutilized financial ratios. In this session, accounting and finance professionals will explore metrics such as operating leverage, free cash flow yield, and margin of safety-tools that go beyond standard ratios to deliver nuanced perspectives on profitability, risk exposure, and operational efficiency.
This event will be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event. |
Applicable for
Financial Analysts and Accountants enhancing their financial analysis skills. Business Leaders seeking insights into operational efficiency and cash flow. Investors and Analysts applying advanced ratios for better valuations.
Learning Objectives
After attending this presentation, you will be able to:
- apply financial ratios to assess profitability, operational efficiency, and risk exposure
- calculate key metrics, including operating leverage, margin of safety, and free cash flow yield, to evaluate financial performance
- analyze cost behavior to determine its impact on break-even points and financial stability
- differentiate between traditional ratios and underutilized metrics for a more comprehensive financial analysis
- select appropriate financial ratios to compare company performance and support strategic decision-making
Content
- understanding cost behavior and its impact on decision-making
- contribution margin and break-even analysis
- margin of safety and its role in risk management
- operating leverage and financial sensitivity
- analyzing asset turnover for operational efficiency
- cash conversion cycle and working capital insights
- free cash flow yield as a valuation tool
Presenter
Eric Knight, CPA, DBAWhat is CPA Crossings?
CPA Crossings is a global leader in online professional education for CPAs and other financial professionals. Established in 2001, CPA Crossings offers scheduled webinars on a range of topics including ethics, fraud, business, personal development, technology, and other fields of study. All of these courses are developed and presented by a team of 60 instructors, recognized as experts in their respective fields of study. Note that the titles from CPA Crossings comprise both live webinars and archived recordings.Webinar FAQs
What training platform will be used?
Webinars are conducted using an online conferencing and training software application called WebEx. The client software downloads automatically after you log in to your WebEx meeting and requires no additional installation. For your first webinar, please allow a few minutes for it to load.How do I get the login information?
Once you are registered online, you will receive an email confirmation listing the WebEx instructions, link and password. This email will come from sender CPA Crossings. If you do not receive this email immediately after your registration has been processed, first check your spam folder. If the link is not in this folder, call the CPA Crossings Webinar Hotline at 877.370.2220 ext. 1 for assistance.How do I hear the audio portion of my online training?
Once you click on the link to join the webinar, you will see a pop-up window to "Join teleconference”. Your first option is to use the telephone. Dial the number provided, enter the training session number and your attendee ID by phone, as provided in the pop-up window when prompted, then click OK. The second option is to join using the computer to listen to the audio through your computer speakers. Once you click that option, it will ask you to do an audio test, then prompt you to join the audio conference.How early may I login to my online training session?
Participants can join webinars up to 30 minutes before the webinar start time. If you are a first-time WebEx user, please join the session at least 15 minutes prior to start time to allow for WebEx configuration.Will I receive a certificate of completion?
A polling question will be asked approximately every 15 minutes to confirm that all participants are still in attendance. A participant must answer 70% of the polling questions in order to receive full credit for the webinar. You will receive your record of attendance via e-mail within 24 hours of completion of the webinar.
For more webinar FAQs, please visit their website here.
Disclosure Notice
In order to register you to the webinars hosted by CPA Crossings, it is necessary for CPABC to provide your name and email address to CPA Crossings. This information will be used solely for the purposes of providing you with CPA Crossings webinar(s)’ confirmations and reminders.
Please be advised that this course is hosted by a third-party education provider whose server may be located outside of Canada, so information such as the registrant's name and email address (where needed) may be stored there.
Course Dates & Registration
Special Notes
Upon one business day after registration and payment, you will receive an email from CPA Crossings (messenger@webex.com) with instructions on how to join the session. CPA Crossings will also email follow up confirmations one day in advance and one hour in advance of your training. Registration deadline is two full business days prior to seminar date.
Interested in similar content?
Starting April 1, 2026, a 2.1% fee will be applied to all credit card transactions. Learn more about this fee and how it relates to PD registrations.