The What and Why of EBITDA
Never heard of the term EBITDA? Or you have some understanding of EBITDA, but you are not sure how it connects with cash flow?
To be sure you have the cash and profits you need to accomplish your business growth goals along with how to understand the timing of the money flowing through your business, you need to know EBITDA and why it is critical to the success of maximizing your cash flow.
How can this course help?
The "The What and Why of EBITDA" course from Numbers Coach University will equip you to understand strategies and decisions leaders make to ensure you have adequate profits to drive cash flow. Numbers are your compass, telling you where you are and where you are heading. How do you know what your EBITDA should be and why it's important for the value of a business?
In this brief course you learn concepts and how to apply them in your business as you work with them regularly.
After completing this course, you will be able to answer questions such as:
“What is EBITDA and how does it connect to cash flow?”
“Why is EBITDA important to the value of a business?"
"What are the drivers of EBITDA?"
Who Is This Course For?
This course is for leaders of businesses and their leadership teams that want to grow their business at a sustainable pace. You are a perfect fit for this course if you are a:
- Business Owner
- Financial Leader
- Non-Financial Leader
What Will I Learn?
In this course, you will learn how EBITDA impacts your businesses cash flow and business valuation. By the end, you will be able to:
- Learn how to define and calculate EBITDA.
- Understand how timing affects your ability to create maximum cash flow impact from EBITDA.
- Answer the question: what are considered reasonable levels of EBITDA to help drive cash flow and growth in a business?
- Learn how EBITDA interacts with the other 8 essential numbers that the Numbers Coach recommends that you measure and track regularly.
Reviewing and understanding the key numbers impacting EBITDA will keep you from being blind-sided by a cash-flow shortage or surprised at the failure of an ill-timed initiative.
Get started today with this self-paced course that you can do in only 30 minutes (or less) to gain the insights you need to get educated around EBITDA and best practices that help it drive cash flow.
This is one of many courses from Numbers Coach University that will help you Own Your Numbers!
Your Instructor
Michael Iverson, MBA, CPA spent over 30 years as a financial executive for corporations such as KPMG, American Family Restaurants, Pediatric Services of America, and Profit Recovery Group. He founded Trillium Financial, Inc. (now Numbers Coach) in 2002 to provide small to midsize businesses with key financial functions such as budgeting, cash flow forecasting, banking and capital funding, mergers and acquisition activity and more. As the Numbers Coach, he has guided many entrepreneurs and business owners along their journey to reach the summit of financial success. Mike has been featured as a business finance expert regularly on podcasts such as Small Business Matters, Scaling Up and The Profit Answer Man.