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Planning, Preparing and Presenting Your Next Earnings
Call in a COVID-19 World with Eric Boyer, Senior Vice
President of Investor Relations at IHS Markit
Your earnings calls in 2020 will be like no others. Investor
fears from COVID-19 have led to record market volatility and an
uncertain future. Senior Vice President of Investor Relations at
IHS Markit, Eric Boyer gives his key takeaways on how best to plan,
prepare, and present your next earnings call. Investors and
analysts have been extremely positive with our call and its
straight talk and approach during this critical earnings time.
Topics covered include:
How did COVID-19 change your approach to earnings preparation
and messaging?
What factors did the management team take into consideration
when deciding whether and how to issue guidance?
What were the reactions of the investment community, the
market, and employees to your call?
What practices prior to the crisis do you believe served as
good preparation for success?
What best practices can you share with companies preparing to
deliver their earnings?
Boyer discusses the importance of being overly transparent;
highlighting business drivers that impact revenue, liquidity, and
cost; providing assumptions and scenarios for guidance;
communicating with employees honestly; proactively targeting new
shareholders; and more.
Posted 02 May 2020 by Michael Miller, Director, Investor Relations Advisory, IHS Markit
IHS Markit provides industry-leading data, software and technology platforms and managed services to tackle some of the most difficult challenges in financial markets. We help our customers better understand complicated markets, reduce risk, operate more efficiently and comply with financial regulation.
