Financial Analysis
- 3 Courses | 1h 14m 8s
- 10 Books | 55h 54m
- 8 Audiobooks | 40h 21m 17s
Learn to skillfully analyze financial statements for better management of your organization's financial resources. Financial professionals must know how to effectively analyze the financial statements of their organization. Generally, this requires an understanding of the structure of financial statements, the economic characteristics of the industry you're in, and the strategies your organization pursues to differentiate itself from its competitors.
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Preparing Financial Statements and Closing Accounts
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COURSES INCLUDED
Preparing Financial Statements and Closing Accounts
Developing your financial acumen is a must in today's economy, and improving your knowledge of accounting basics and financial management is a good first step. In this course, you'll explore the financial essentials that will enable you to understand key steps in the management of finance within the accounting cycle. You'll learn how, once you've worked your way through recording transactions and posting to ledgers, you're ready to start preparing financial statements. You'll learn about Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Statements, and how they're interrelated. You'll also learn about the steps involved in closing accounts.
9 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Comprehending Financials: A Guide to Financial Statements
To maintain your company's finances, you need a strong knowledge of business finance. And to improve the financial well-being of your company, it's vital to understand key financial statements, such as the Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement, and Balance Sheet, as these will hint at problems and possible solutions. This course will give you an overview of these three statements. You'll also explore typical examples of financial statements, learn how each financial statement relates to the other, and discover what each one indicates about your company's financial position.
9 videos |
24m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Financial Statement Analysis for Non-financial Professionals
Financial analysis helps you understand your organization's business finance, as well as its strengths and weaknesses. This course explains finance for non-finance professional in easy-to-understand language, with a specific focus on financial statements. You'll learn about methods for analyzing financial statements from the perspective of a non-financial professional. You'll explore the concept of the Time Value of Money. You'll also examine how to use common financial ratios for profitability, efficiency, liquidity, and solvency, and study percentage calculations. Finally, you'll be introduced to vertical and horizontal analysis.
9 videos |
26m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
Using Accounting & Financial Information: Analyzing, Forecasting & Decision-MakingIn Using Accounting & Financial Information, author Mark S. Bettner approaches the concepts of accounting and financial reporting from the user's perspective. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m
By Mark S. Bettner
Book
A Manager's Guide to Financial Analysis, Sixth Edition: Powerful Tools for Analyzing the Numbers and Making the Best Decisions for Your BusinessCovering in-depth financial statement analysis, ratio analysis, asset management, capital structure, and more, this comprehensive course guide gives students the tools they need to crunch the numbers, focusing on prediction rather than reporting.
3h 56m
By Eliot H. Sherman
Book
Financial Forecasting, Analysis and Modelling: A Framework for Long-Term ForecastingDesigned to help finance professionals include uncertainty in their planning and budgeting process, this book guides readers step-by-step through the entire projection plan development process, and presents the tools, techniques, and special considerations that increase accuracy and smooth the workflow.
4h 11m
By Michael Samonas
Book
How to Read and Interpret Financial Statements, Second Edition: A Guide to Understanding What the Numbers Really MeanTeaching students how to read and analyze the reports that are fundamental to gauging the health of any business, this comprehensive course guide shows how to interpret balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flows- and consider the numbers in the context of external economic conditions.
2h 25m
By Michael P. Griffin
Book
The Story Underlying the Numbers: A Simple Approach to Comprehensive Financial Statements AnalysisUsing a logical, top-down approach to unraveling the underlying story of the firm, this plain-English guide can be used by students and working executives who have a rudimentary prior idea of financial statements as well as familiarity with the very basic financial ratios.
2h 52m
By S. Veena Iyer
Book
Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide, Second EditionAnalyzing intangible asset measurement and performance improvement, this visionary guide helps financial managers upgrade their skills so they can answer their organization's call for operations reviews, investment evaluations, problem reporting and more.
8h 10m
By Steven M. Bragg
Book
Financial Analysis and Modeling Using Excel and VBA, Second EditionLooking at the theory and practice of financial analysis and modeling, this guide reviews all the necessary concepts and walks you through real-world financial problems and models that you can learn from, use for practice, and easily adapt for work and classroom use.
14h 25m
By Chandan Sengupta
Book
Marketplace Lending, Financial Analysis, and the Future of Credit: Integration, Profitability, and Risk ManagementBridging the gap in understanding between financial technology entrepreneurs and credit institutions, this book clearly explains why financial credit institutions need to further innovate within the financial technology arena, and presents a framework for applying innovative strategies in credit services.
7h 5m
By Ioannis Akkizidis, Manuel Stagars
Book
Analysis of Financial Statements, Third EditionRecent financial events have taught us to take a more critical look at the financial disclosures provided by companies. Written to reflect current market conditions, this up-to-date, reliable resource will help analysts and investors use these disclosures to assess a company's financial health and risks.
5h 23m
By Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake
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Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, Fourth EditionFilled with real-life examples and expert advice, this essential guide will help you gain a firm understanding of the techniques that will help you interpret financial statements, which are designed to conceal more than reveal.
7h 17m
By Fernando Alvarez, Martin S. Fridson
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
A Manager's Guide to Financial Analysis: Powerful Tools for Analyzing the Numbers and Making the Best Decisions for Your Business, Sixth EditionA Manager's Guide to Financial Analysis, Sixth Edition explains how to analyze the separate components of financial statements and how they relate to each other, as well as demonstrates the various tools used in the valuation of potential business ventures, mergers, and acquisitions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 25s
By Eliot H. Sherman
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Four Pillars of Investing: Lessons for Building a Winning PortfolioThe Four Pillars of Investing offers lessons to investors on how to make more informed decisions and presents four essential areas you should focus on. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
21m 10s
By William J. Bernstein
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, Third EditionThe Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, Third Edition will help you understand more about your own company's documents and how to read other companies' publications to know where they're headed. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
22m 4s
By Edward Fields
Audiobook
The New Case for GoldIn this audio edition, bestselling author and economic commentator James Rickards steps forward to defend gold-as both an irreplaceable store of wealth and a standard for currency. Read by the author.
4h 6m 30s
By James Rickards
Audiobook
Getting Back to Business: Why Modern Portfolio Theory Fails Investors and How You Can Bring Common Sense to Your PortfolioThis audio edition provides a solution to portfolio theory that makes sense in today's challenging investing landscape.
9h 54m
By Daniel Peris
Audiobook
Project Finance for Business DevelopmentThis audio edition shows you how to develop, structure, and implement projects successfully by creating competitive advantage.
12h 54m 22s
By John E. Triantis
Audiobook
Leveraging Your Financial Intelligence: At the Intersection of Money, Health, and HappinessThis audio edition will teach you a powerful values-based approach to achieving your most important life goals.
5h 35m 21s
By Douglas Lennick, Roy Geer, Ryan Goulart
Audiobook
The Turnkey Revolution: How to Passively Build Your Real Estate Portfolio for More Income, Freedom, and Peace of MindThis audio edition provides everything you need to take full advantage of today's real estate revolution.
6h 46m 25s
By Christopher D. Clothier
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