Cryptocurrencies for the CFO: Explaining Blockchain

Overview

What exactly is cryptocurrency and its cousin named blockchain? Are they here to stay? This session will provide a big picture examination of the technologies and currencies by explaining how we got here. We discuss the systems and technical aspects of cryptocurrencies and blockchain. What is the broad view of the technologies that currently do, and will continue to, impact our workplace and lives?

Prerequisites

None, however preferably at least six (6) months of professional financial statement analysis experience, or at least six (6) credit hours of corporate finance classwork at an accredited university.

Objectives

• Exploring and explaining cryptocurrencies and blockchain. How these new technologies have, and will continue to, impact industry

Highlights

• What is money?
• What are digital assets?
• Understanding the what, why, and how of cryptocurrencies
• Understanding the what, why, and how of blockchain
• NFT’s (Non-Fungible Tokens), their role and impact
• Explaining the crypto language