Financial Statements Analysis

This course will provide a strategic perspective from a business analyst point of view, on financial reporting, financial statement analysis and business valuation. Thus it will focus on:

• understand the role and place of the financial statements;
• provide exposure to tools of financial analysis, theoretical concepts, and practical valuation issues;
• familiarize with using businesses’ financial statements to draw an understanding of their performance and provide a basis for making reasonable valuation estimates;
• know current trends in the development of financial statements normalization;
• understand the meaning and parameters of financial information quality;
• compute, understand and explain the financial ratios;
• analyze short and long-term profitability and risk;
• forecast financial statements;
• apply different models based on financial information to assess the value of a company.