Interpretation of Financial Statements
INTRODUCTION
Financial statements are designed to show the performance, financial condition, and cash flows of a business. The Interpretation of Financial Statements course reveals how to convert these statements into an open book that can be explored in depth, giving crucial insights to investors, lenders, and creditors. The course does so by describing the structure of the financial statements, noting a number of tools for extracting information from the statements, and providing a wealth of additional insights into the reasons for the presence of or changes in certain numbers within the statements. In short, this course contains the complete set of tools for breaking down and examining a set of financial statements.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize the accrual basis of accounting concept and how it functions, as well as the accounting equation concept.
- Understand the structure of the three principal financial statements: the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement, and interpret the information found in these statements
- Identify online sources of financial information that can be used to conduct research on other publicly traded firms and industries
its for Chief accountants, accounting managers, senior accountants, finance directors, finance managers, financial analysts, financial controllers, financial accounts managers, heads of finance departments, credit controllers, corporate financiers, credit risk analysts, bankers, and relationship manager.