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Learn how to read financial statements

Sageworks Inc., a North Carolina company that tracks private companies, is offering a training session later this month for business reporters on how to read financial statements.

Sageworks chairman Brian Hamilton will lead this free webinar for journalists, focusing on how to analyze financial statements and find the “narrative” behind the numbers.

This webinar will cover:

An easy-to-understand overview of an income statement, balance sheet and statement of cash flow
The most important data found in a company’s financial statements
How to draw conclusions from a company’s numbers

The session will take place on Oct. 22 from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.

To register, go here.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.