Bring your balance.
We'll read it together.
This is not a generic course. You bring the documents your accountant prepared for your specific business, and we work through them together — your numbers, your questions, your industry.
Generic examples teach generic knowledge.
There's a significant difference between understanding a financial statement in theory and being able to read your own. The terminology is the same, but the structure, the proportions, and the specific accounts vary enormously depending on your industry, your business model, and the choices your accountant made when setting up your chart of accounts.
When you learn with your own documents, the knowledge is immediately applicable. You're not learning about a fictional retail company and then trying to figure out how it applies to your construction firm or your service business.
You're reading your actual numbers, asking questions about your actual situation, and leaving with understanding that's directly relevant to the decisions you make every week.
Preparing for your first session.
No special preparation is required. Just bring the documents your accountant gave you. Here's what to look for.
Balance General (Balance Sheet)
The document showing your assets, liabilities, and equity. Usually labeled "Balance General" or "Estado de Situación Patrimonial" in Argentine accounting. This is typically the first or most prominent document in your annual financial package.
Estado de Resultados (Income Statement)
The document showing your revenue, costs, and expenses for the year, and the resulting profit or loss. May also be called "Estado de Ganancias y Pérdidas" in some accounting formats. Bring whatever your accountant provided.
Flujo de Efectivo (Cash Flow)
The document tracking actual cash movements. Not all businesses receive this document annually — if you don't have it, that's fine. We can still work with the balance sheet and income statement, and explain why the cash flow statement is useful to request from your accountant.
A typical session looks like this.
We Start with Your Document
We open your actual financial statement — not a sample, not a slide deck. Your pages. We orient you to the overall structure first: what the main sections are and what order to read them in.
Plain Language Throughout
Every accounting term gets explained in plain language when it comes up. We don't assume prior knowledge. If something is unclear, we explain it differently until it makes sense — not just once and move on.
We Show You Where to Look First
Financial statements contain a lot of information. Not all of it is equally important for a business owner. We show you which numbers to focus on, which ratios matter most, and where to look when you want to understand a specific aspect of your business's performance.
Your Questions Drive the Conversation
Sessions are not lectures. You bring your questions, your confusion, and your specific concerns. If there's a line item you've always wondered about, or a number that never made sense to you, that's exactly what we're here to work through.
Questions to ask your accountant.
One of the most practical outcomes of working through your financial statements is developing a set of specific, informed questions for your accountant. The relationship between a business owner and their accountant works better when the owner understands the basics.
Here are examples of the kinds of questions participants often leave with:
