TMA Webinar Tracks Cash Flow 'Road Map'

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Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:59am EDT

CHICAGO, Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- The 13-Week Cash Flow (TWCF) model is the
industry standard used by turnaround professionals to steer financially
troubled businesses to a desired exit.  The next installment of the TMA
Webinar education series covers cash budgeting procedures and targets
associated with this model, which identifies liquidity needs and defines
recovery strategies.

"The Turnaround Scorecard - 13-Week Cash Flow Model," will be held from noon
to 1 p.m. (EDT) on Tuesday, September 15, 2009.

This Webinar is TMA's first real-time educational online course approved by
the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) for continuing
professional education credit.

Presenters have applied TWCF principles to various business sectors, including
manufacturing, transportation and healthcare, and nearly all are certified
turnaround professionals or CTPs, a designation conferred by TMA to those with
documented expertise in the legal, operational and financial aspects of
turnaround management.

Moderator:
    --  Frank R. Mack, CTP, chief executive officer, Project Special
Situations,
        LLC, has more than 18 years of executive experience as an interim
        manager and consultant for distressed and underperforming companies
and
        special situations investments in both operational and financial
        capacities.


Panelists:
    --  Anu Singh, CTP, vice president, Kaufman, Hall & Associates, leads
        merger and acquisition transactions, executes valuation engagements
and
        provides other financial advisory services to healthcare organizations
        and companies.
    --  Robert D. Katz, CTP, managing director, Executive Sounding Board
        Associates Inc., specializes in cash management, trade and creditor
        workouts, with 15 years of strategic and hands-on experience as a
chief
        financial officer and management consultant.
    --  James M. Macdonald III, senior vice president, JPMorgan Chase, Midwest
        Region, has more than 16 years of middle market and large corporate
        commercial finance experience with an emphasis on relationship banking
        and originating asset-based and cash flow commercial loans.

    --  David W. Wirt, partner, Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP, chairs the
        Bankruptcy and Restructuring group and focuses on insolvency,
bankruptcy
        and business reorganization.

The Chicago-based Turnaround Management Association has nearly 9,000 members
in 45 regional chapters who comprise a professional community of turnaround
practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture
capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters and consultants.




SOURCE  Turnaround Management Association

Michele Drayton, Turnaround Management Association PR Manager,
+1-312-242-6044, mdrayton@turnaround.org
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