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Financial Statement Analysis Principles

The objective of the Financial Statement Analysis course is to provide you with a framework for analyzing a firm’s past performance, estimating its future performance, and valuing its equity.

25 Modules

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The objective of this course is to provide you with a framework for analyzing a firm’s past performance, estimating its future performance, and valuing its equity. The course integrates key concepts from accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy and applies them to financial decision-making. The course focuses on teaching you to interpret numbers in financial statements. You should leave the course with the ability to generate reasonably accurate (or at least logically consistent) forecasts of a firm's future financial performance, including revenues, earnings, asset balances, and free cash flows.

The course illustrates contemporary forecasting and valuation techniques used by practitioners as well as evidence from academic research on the effectiveness of these techniques. The objective of this course is to understand how to read, interpret, and analyze financial statements. It offers you the advanced knowledge necessary to understand the financial statements in a very detailed manner. It will help you understand how to utilize the published data for analysis purposes.

Study the interrelationships between financial statement line items
Use ratio analysis to understand and compare firms
Understand accounting disclosures
Use accounting disclosures to adjust financial statements
Forecast future earnings using accounting disclosures
Value a firm using forecasts

Students planning a career in accounting, the financial industry, consulting, or general management, will find the knowledge acquired in this course relevant