Understanding and quantifying global cash flow is becoming more of a necessity for financial institutions that lend money to businesses, and understanding and analyzing information in personal income tax returns is an important aspect of recognizing the financial condition of loan guarantors.

To accurately calculate global cash flow, a lender needs to know how to take information in personal tax returns and apply it correctly.

In this training session, lenders will learn how to interpret information contained in personal tax returns to determine the ability of customers who guarantee loans to add strength to loan requests. We'll work with individual federal tax return forms and schedules to help identify the places in tax returns that address cash flow as well as places that don't, as well as what forms and schedules in personal tax returns that they should pay attention to and what you should ignore.What You'll Learn:

• Understanding those sections of the tax return that are important for determining a borrower's ability to generate cash flow
• Identifying cash inflows and cash outflows from tax returns
• The relevance of information contained in various tax schedules
• The difference between cash flow and taxable income
• Understanding how personal cash flow is generated from owning small businesses, sole proprietorships, partnerships, corporations and limited liability companies