Course Overview

This financial statement analysis course will provide participants with the knowledge and skills to enable them to perform financial statement analysis, a crucial component in making investment, financial, lending and leasing decisions

Key Benefits

We help acquaint you with the essential methods and tools to develop into a successful corporate and financial manager of tomorrow, by supplementing the traditional metrics of performance with the latest dynamic methods that adapt to the increasing uncertainty and flexibility inherent in the fabric of the modern world.

Course Objectives

• Define all types of financial statements and identify the different accounting assumptions.
• Describe the structure of each financial statement and explain the accounting standards applied for preparing
• Perform financial analysis in order to lay the groundwork for credit and investment decisions
• Link the financial statement analysis to present and future decisions

Course Outline  

Module 1: Financial Statements

• Users of financial statements
• Defining financial statements
• Basic accounting assumptions
• Essential information for a financial statement analysis

Module 2: Structure and Elements of Financial Statements

• Balance Sheets
• Income Statements
• Cash Flow Statement
• Accounting policies used in preparing financial statements and notes to the statements
• Methods and approaches used in measuring financial statement items

Module 3:  Financial Statement Analysis

• Types of financial statement analysis
• Profitability analysis
• Liquidity analysis
• Capital adequacy analysis
• Financial leverage analysis