OVERVIEW

Familiarise yourself with the three key financial statements, the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement, to understand how the three statements give us a variety of information about the performance and current state of a business. This module introduces financial statements with no assumption of prior knowledge.

2 hours of video content.
Estimated 4 hours to complete.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Understand the Income Statement, calculate and interpret key metrics including margins
• Understand the Balance Sheet, and calculate metrics such as Operating Working Capital and Net Debt
• Understand the Cash Flow Statement
• Interpret and compare a variety of metrics to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of companies relative to their peers

TOPICS COVERED

Complete topics step by step or jump to any of the below at any time.

PREREQUISITES

This course is open to all. To maximize the benefit of this course we recommend an understanding of financial statements and Microsoft Excel.

This course is available in the:
Introduction To Corporate Finance 5 Course Bundle

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The bundle includes the following courses:

• Financial Math for Financial Markets
• Introduction to Accounting: Financial Statement Basics
• Excel Best Practices for PC: Become an Excel Expert
• Introduction to Financial Modeling - FREE
• Valuation Fundamentals

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