Accounting for Financial Modeling

Accounting for Financial Modeling will give you the skills to understand and analyze the financial statements of public and private companies. The course covers essential and advanced topics related to the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement, and will provide you with a robust skill set for analysis of advanced accounting issues that appear often in real-world financial analysis. The focus is on the US GAAP accounting, however, whenever the US GAAP deviates from the IFRS accounting, the difference will be reviewed.

The topics covered:

- Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement;

- Accounts Receivable, Inventory, PP&E, Goodwill, Deferred Revenue, Accounts Payable;

- Net Operating Losses, Deferred Tax Asset & Liability;

- Revenue, COGS, SG&A, R&D, Depreciation, Amortization, Interest Expense, and Taxes;

- Debt & Equity Financing, APIC, Retained Earnings;

- Debt Financing Fees, Capitalized Interest, PIK Debt;

- Operating and Finance Leases;

- Bonds, Original Issue Discount & Premium;

- M&A Accounting;

In an online environment, you will go from basic accounting to advanced accounting topics relevant for investment analysis, debt structuring, and financial modeling of both public and private companies. This course is filled with quizzes and exercises that cover advanced accounting problems that you will not find in introductory accounting courses.

By the end of this course, you will have gained advanced accounting knowledge and you will be able to understand and analyze complex financial statements of public and private companies.