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UCFTI Education Series
Thursday, January 25th
8:30 am to 10:30 am
Most business owners need 4-5 key numbers to run their business. These are the "dashboard dials" they use (or should be using) to drive the company forward.
Understanding these numbers and why they are important is critical to helping you guide your clients and your company.
Sales versus Real Sales
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Gross Profit - why CEOs think it's wrong on financial statements and why they are right
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Overhead Rate versus Burn Rate - which is more important and why
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Net Profit - what does that mean and why is it important
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Cash and Cash Flow - how often should it be monitored
Presentor: Wayne F. Leland, CPA, EA, Managing Partnerat Nperspective, LLC
Location: Disney/SBA National Entrepreneur Center (315 E. Robinson St., Suite 100)
Cost: $20 at the door (cash or checks payable to UCF Research Foundation); Free for UCFTI clients
Please RSVP to Renee Ayala at 407-882-0202 or rayala@mail.ucf.edu
SPEAKER:
Wayne F.Leland, CPA, EA is a Managing Partner at Nperspective, LLC (www.nperspective.net). He has over 33 years experience building management reporting systems, tax positioning, and government contract auditing. Since founding Nperspective, current and recent clients include companies in the following industries: construction (land development, home construction, and large subcontractors), manufacturing and distribution, healthcare and software development/sales.
Prior to forming Nperspective Mr. Leland was the CFO (ultimately president) for a seven corporation managed health care group that was successfully sold. He quarterbacked numerous acquisition projects both from the buy and the sell side, designed and implemented the accounting, estimating and management reporting systems used by the companies to this day. He was also the consulting CFO of a software development and sales company where he design and implemented a deferred revenue tracking model which automated future invoicing per contract along with structuring their entire accounting and management reporting systems. That company was successfully sold for a very high multiple of earnings. Mr. Leland was also the consulting CFO for a large construction company where he designed, developed, and implemented an estimating system that reduced the estimating time from 2 days to 3 hours and automatically produced the numbers to update the job cost budgets by cost category.
Wayne began his career with Ernst & Young (a big 4 firm), was an IRS Agent for 9 years, a defense contract auditor for 5 years, and owned his own CPA firm for 15 years. Mr. Leland received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Central Florida after returning from Vietnam as a decorated combat veteran. He is an active member of the AICPA and the FICPA. Wayne is on the Wealth Protection Advisory Panel of the Oxford Club and his articles are published their communiqué. He has also been a guest pannelist addressing the students at the Crummer Graduate School of Business (Rollins MBA).
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