Put the Cash Back in Your Business: The Three Essential Financial Statements - Auburn

This Workshop is FREE and sponsored by TD Charitable Foundation. Preregistration is required.

Understanding financial statements is essential to the success of your current business or creating accurate projections for your potential business. The first part of this two-part workshop covers the basics of the balance sheet, income statement, and the statement of cash flows. This workshop is designed for both business owners and prospective business owners.

Who Should Attend:
Business owners or prospective business owners wishing to:

Gain an understanding of business financials
Maximize Working Capital
Create Operational Budgets for your business

What You Will Learn:

How to understand the relationship between Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement
How to let the numbers help you make better decisions
How to build a monthly budget and monitor your business activity by the financial statements

Your Presenter: Rose Creps

Rose Creps has a Bachelors Degree in Accounting and a Masters Degree in Global Business Administration both from Southern New Hampshire University. She previously worked as a financial consultant and an accounting manager. Aside from her financial expertise, she has significant experience in training and education. Rose joined AVCOG in September 2007 providing business counseling services through the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) program. Counseling includes business/market planning, financial forecasting and cash flow budgeting, internal management, loan packaging and workshop/seminar production.

Rose has worked with clients in all stages of business development that include:

Having a start-up idea of wanting to get started in business
Assisting clients with development of a commercial loan package
Existing businesses in distress
As a coach with existing business owners wanting an outside party to talk to about their business
Part of Strategic development teams with Farms for the Future program

As an SBDC counselor, Rose is aware of other resources that are in place to help our small business owners in the state of Maine.