Maintaining or Improving Your Utility's Bond Rating

2 – 3:30 p.m. Eastern

Registration

This is the second in series of two webinars:

• Register for the Maintaining or Improving Your Utility's Bond Rating webinar. 
• Register now for the 2-part series at a discounted rate.

Series Description

This two-part series is designed to help educate public power utilities on current trends and issues affecting utility bond ratings. Through these webinars, you will learn the ins and outs of how rating agencies evaluate a utility’s bond rating, and hear what actions public power utilities can take to maintain or improve their bond ratings.

Webinar Description

One of the important jobs of utility finance executives is to maintain or improve the utility’s bond rating. Improving the utility’s rating lowers interest rates on borrowings and is a best practice in utility financial management.

Hear what the rating agencies use in their evaluation of the utility’s bond rating and learn strategies to improve the utility’s financial health and credit worthiness in the eyes of the lending community.

Topics include:

• Key components of bond ratings
• Items that rating agencies look for in your financial statements
• What does a poor rating cost your ratepayers?
• Establishing benchmarks to measure financial performance
• Public power case studies and best practices
• Long-term planning and budgeting for a better bond rating

Speaker

• Russ Hissom, CPA, CIA, CISA, Partner, Energy and Utilities Group, Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, Madison, Wis.

Registration/Fee Information

Individual webinars: $99 for Association; $199 for nonmembers

• Click here to register for this individual webinar 

The two-part series (discounted rate): $150 for Association members; $300 for nonmembers

• Click here to register for the series
• Webinars are recorded and available for playback, in case you miss the live version.