Audio Conferences

  May 16, 2007 at 02:00PM ET

Spotting the early warning signs of a customer experiencing financial difficulties is a crucial component of every credit professional’s job. However, many early warning signs are easily missed and could leave your company saddled with thousands of dollars of bad debt.

Don’t take that risk! Join IOMA and the Credit Research Foundation for a “postmortem” analysis of some of the biggest bankruptcy filings of the last 5 years. Applying the benefits of tough lessons learned by companies like Kmart, Delphi, Delta and others you’ll get the tools you need to spot key early warning signs of financial distress before it hits your bottom line.

In just 90-minutes, you’ll discover how to look ahead and analyze your own customer relationships for:

• Operational warning signs
• Critical balance sheet red flags and how to spot them
• Accounting troubles: how something as simple as an earnings restatement could be a symptom of a much bigger problem
• Putting 2+2 together on external factors, i.e. global economic conditions or the availability of critical primary raw materials
• Key management issues that could spell trouble
• And much more!

Featured Faculty

Scott Friedman
Vice President
Avenue Capital Group
Mr. Friedman has over a decade of experience in risk management and analysis of distressed retail and wholesale credits for trade vendors with a focus on trade claims. Prior to joining Avenue, Mr. Friedman served as Vice President and a member of the senior management team overseeing the analyst department at Information Clearinghouse, Inc., whose operating companies, F&D Reports and Creditntell.com, provide in-depth consulting, and credit analyses on high yield, distressed and investment grade retailers for trade manufacturers.