The Balance Sheet is one of the 3 main financial statements of a company — it captures the Assets, and the Liabilities (equity+debt) at a “certain point in time” – like the end of the year. And it balances.
About the presenter: Michael Fischer spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, advising some of the largest private banks, mutual fund companies and hedge funds in the world on investment choices. He started his finance career at Credit Suisse First Boston in early 1995. During these ten years, he was frequently ranked as the top advisor by many of his clients and peers. He gave his opinion to managers of trillions of dollars of assets and came across hundreds of different investment styles and approaches; he also bought and sold billions of dollar of investments on behalf of his clients and himself. Michael holds an MBA from INSEAD (Dec 1994) and an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto (1989). He has also written a book on Saving and Investing because he feels strongly this material is too important in our world today to ignore. You can learn more about his book at the following website: http://www.savingandinvestingbook.com
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Basic Financial Management-What is an Income Statement?
There are 3 main account statements for companies – the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow statement. This video in on the first of these – the income statement.
About the presenter: Michael Fischer spent nine years at Goldman Sachs, advising some of the largest private banks, mutual fund companies and hedge funds in the world on investment choices. He started his finance career at Credit Suisse First Boston in early 1995. During these ten years, he was frequently ranked as the top advisor by many of his clients and peers. He gave his opinion to managers of trillions of dollars of assets and came across hundreds of different investment styles and approaches; he also bought and sold billions of dollar of investments on behalf of his clients and himself. Michael holds an MBA from INSEAD (Dec 1994) and an Honours Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Toronto (1989). He has also written a book on Saving and Investing because he feels strongly this material is too important in our world today to ignore. You can learn more about his book at the following website: http://www.savingandinvestingbook.com
Industry Topic Dicussions coming up
Last week was active and interesting – we initiated Industry Dicussions in the areas of: M&A, Sales & Marketing, and Project Management – you will be able to see some of these new discussions in a week.
All these discussions are planned as a series, which means they will have multiple parts –easier for you to pick up, and easier to fit into the busy schedules of our contributing professionals.
We are going to arrange all these Industry Topic discussions in the Blogs section of our site: http://www.myorbit.tv/blogs/
Some of these discussions will be available to invited members only because of the wish of the contributing executive. And that is equally fine because MyOrbit.tv can be used both for public and private sharing of business experiences.
By end-June, we plan to feature about 8 industry groups (each group having a few blogs in it) that are created and run by our members – for their business or knowledge sharing. Meanwhile, if you have any questions or want something to be discussed on this blog, write to us at: connect [at] myorbit.tv
Video on Google Search Tips
We all, or most of us, use Google for search and information gathering. And there are some advanced ways of using it. Watch this video to learn more.
Rodney Wilson on Risk Management in Islamic Finance
This video (sorry, for the poor quality) is taken from an event organized by the Institute of Islamic Banking and Insurance (IIBI) London held at British Bankers’ Association on 16 March 2007. Please turn up your volume, and the video and sound gets clearer by end of 2nd minute.
About the Speaker: Prof. Rodney Wilson is the Director of Post Graduate Studies at Durham University’s School of Government and International Affairs. He manages the Durham Islamic Finance Programme and he is also on the academic committee of the Institute. He worked with the Islamic Development Bank, and is currently serving as a consultant to the Islamic Financial Services Board. His most recent book is: Islamic Economics: a Short History,Brill Academic Publishing, 2006. He has contributed to numerous professional publications on Islamic finance topics including sukuk, asset management, retail banking and most recently takaful. Professor Wilson acts as facilitator for courses on Islamic finance in London, Kuwait, Bahrain, Dubai, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.
He is a pioneer in this field.