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Financial Management:

Module 2: Documentation Basics

Preparation

Read “Is Your Farm Business Accurately Measuring Profitability? A Checklist for Building Complete, Accurate and Consistent Financial Statements.”

Purpose of Lecture

This lecture highlights a number of issues that need to be addressed when compiling complete accurate and consistent financial statements. These issues must be understood if a wise management decisions that rely on financial statements are to be made.

Structure of Presentation

A brief introduction the key financial statements begins the presentation before moving into such issues as the entity concept, cost and market asset valuations, the sources of equity and other issues.

Other References

“Preparing Agricultural Financial Statements.” Dave Kohl and Troy Wilson. Northwest Farm Credit Services. Spokane, WA. Phone the marketing department at 509-340-5400 to order.


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Financial Basics

Measuring Performance

Assessing Performance

Debt Service Analysis

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Investment Analysis

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Risk and Risk Balancing

Alternative Financial/
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