Applied Forest Finance Webinar

Join us for the one-day "Applied Forest Finance" class on June 24th via Zoom Webinar! This class details the step-by-step financial analysis required to answer key investment and forest management questions. Learn how to identify, value, and rank timber and forestry investments. This one-day course is ideal for forestry consultants and investment analysts, timberland owners and investors, and anyone else who needs to understand the identification, valuation, and ranking of timber-dependent and forest-related investments.

This course will qualify for 6.0 hrs of Continuing Forestry Education Credits (CFE), 6.0 hrs of Georgia Real Estate/Appraiser CE credits, and 6.0 hrs Georgia Master Timber Harvester/Continuing Logger Education credits.

Click here to view the detailed course agenda.

Webinar Registration Fee: $580
Registration closes after Friday, June 12th
Attendees receive a copy of the Forest Finance Simplified handbook and the Aunt Fanny Learns Forestry book, as well as printed reference materials and Excel models for reinforcing and applying the concepts learned during the course. Forisk will mail you a packet of course materials prior to the webinar.

Companies that subscribe to the Forisk Research Quarterly (FRQ), the Wood Fiber Review, or Forisk's Mill Database can receive 10% off their employees' registration fees! Contact Heather Clark (hclark@forisk.com) for the promo code!

This class directly addresses the following key forest finance topics:

Common mistakes and how to correct them
Financial criteria: ranking investment options
Discount rates: estimating risk
Marginal analysis: when does forest management pay?
Case study: when do we clearcut for pulpwood versus manage for sawtimber?
Case study: maximizing financial returns from existing stands

Who Should Attend?

Forestry consultants and investment analysts, timberland owners and investors, and anyone else who needs to understand the identification, valuation, and ranking of timber-dependent and forest-related investments.

Course Outline

Detailed course agenda available here.

Key concepts and unique attributes of forest finance
Time value of money
Nominal vs. real rates
Common mistakes and how to correct them
Faustmann and bare land value
Financial criteria: ranking investment options
Discount rates: estimating risk
Marginal analysis: when does forest management pay?
Case study: when do we clearcut for pulpwood versus manage for sawtimber?
Case study: maximizing financial returns from existing stands

Feedback from previous "Applied Forest Finance" participants:

Clean, clear explanation, narrative, and discussions. Excellent visual aids and handouts. I felt like I was back in my forest economic college class on steroids...Excellent presentation!
The structure was great. Learning and then applying what you learned in a group setting (large and small) really helped me understand the concepts.
Wonderful introduction to finance applied to forestry.
Full of meaningful content without industry slang. Useful for forest professionals, real estate folks, appraisers, and landowners (me!). Thumb drive and handouts are super useful and helpful.