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Diagnosing Problems in Troubled Companies

Evaluating Turnaround Potential and Establishing the Basis for Actionable, Achievable Solutions

Location: Your office or conference room (no need to travel!)

Date : Audio CD Available

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Hosted By : Beard Group Law and Business Publishers

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In the rush to address the multiple crises that beset a troubled company, its easy to fall victim to squeaky wheel priorities. You can expend massive energy battling symptoms, rather than crafting real solutions.

Instead, as the critical first step, you should prepare a rapid, accurate, factual diagnosis of the fundamental challenges and risks confronting the company. You must go well beyond the raw numbers to identify the underlying causes of organizational, operational, competitive, and liquidity problems. Heres where successful outcomes are made or missed.

Where do you begin? Order the Audio CD (recorded January 2007) of this audio conference and receive step-by-step guidance on how to conduct an effective and actionable diagnosis of a troubled business. Learn from two of the nations top turnaround management gurus, Stephen J. Hopkins and S. Douglas Hopkins of Kestrel Consulting LLC, who collectively have led successful operational turnarounds and financial restructurings in dozens of nationally known companies.

In just 90 minutes, you and an unlimited number of your turnaround team will learn:

· Four factors vital to diagnosing a troubled company
· Your quickest source for identifying problems and solutions
· Characteristics that identify bad management
· Paretos Law: How it helps you identify where a company is making and losing money
· Scorecards for quickly assessing potential operational and competitive risks
· Key operational signs that should trigger further investigation
· How normal business cycles often trigger or disguise problems
· Why you should focus on unit volume, not just dollar-based revenue
· The importance of a simple one-page bridge analysis
· Lessons learned from analyzing 100 financially troubled businesses

About Your Presenters:
Stephen J. Hopkins and S. Douglas Hopkins, a father-son team, are the founders and principals of Kestrel Consulting, LLC. Each has more than 25 years of experience working with troubled businesses, where they have provided turnaround advisory and interim management services to a broad and diverse selection of middle market companies.

The speakers are the authors of Crafting Solutions for Troubled Businesses: A Disciplined Approach to Diagnosing and Confronting Management Challenges, published recently by the Beard Group. You may order a copy of the book by visiting www.beardbooks.com.

Collectively, Steve and Doug have managed or had a major involvement in more than 150 projects. In connection with their various projects, Steve and Doug have completed more than 50 sales transactions involving troubled companies.

Who Will Benefit:
This audio conference is designed especially for:
- Current or potential practitioners of turnaround management
- Executives and managers of under-performing businesses
- Lenders and work-out officers charged with monitoring and evaluating their borrowers performance and prospects
- Private equity firms or individual owners holding or evaluating under-performing operations
- Boards of directors wanting to understand the reasons why their business is failing to meet expectations
- Potential acquirers of a troubled business
- Any advisor, manager, or investor working with distressed businesses and interested in assessing turnaround / recovery potential

Speaker(s):

	S. Douglas Hopkins Kestrel Consulting, LLC
S. Douglas Hopkins has more than 25 years of experience working with troubled businesses. At Kestrel Consulting, he and his father Steve provide turnaround and interim management services to a broad and diverse selection of middle market companies. In connection with their various projects, Doug and Steve have completed more than 50 sales transactions involving troubled companies. Doug and Steve also are the authors of a new 302-page book, *Crafting Solutions for Troubled Businesses: A Disciplined Approach to Diagnosing and Confronting Management Challenges*. This critically acclaimed book is published by Beard Books and is available at www.beardbooks.com for $74.95 plus shipping and handling.
	Stephen J. Hopkins Kestrel Consulting, LLC
Stephen J. Hopkins has more than 25 years of experience working with troubled businesses. He began his career with 18 years in financial management positions at General Electric before turning his attention exclusively to assisting financially stressed organizations. Collectively, he and his son Doug have managed or had a major involvement in more than 150 projects, including such major bankruptcy cases as Evans Products, Fairfield Communities, Cuisinart, and Doskocil. Interim CEO assignments have included companies as diverse as Worlds of Wonder (toys), Evans Financial (mortgage portfolio), Cerplex (electronic equipment), MAI-Europe (computer systems), Pinnacle Brands (sports trading cards), View Tech (videoconferencing), Yorx (audio electronics), and Combined States Holding (international shipping).

Diagnosing Problems in Troubled Companies


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