Financial Statements | Investor's Perspective

The skill to read and understand financial statements is an important and necessary life skill.

This is needed by anyone who aspires to be a manager of a business/team or consciously invest and grow their wealth. Since you are actively learning at this stage of your life, you definitely fall in either of the above categories.

In case you always wished to read and understand the financial statements but could not due to reasons such as where to start, too complex and voluminous material, lack of dedicated time at your end, you have come to the right place as this course is created in basic form to addresses all those concerns. My attempts were guided with one vision - Avoid the boredom due to technical nature of this skill without loosing the core essence of the subject.

Topics, in a very basic form, will cover the following elements:

· Overview of Balance Sheet – Synopsis, High-Level Building Blocks and Deep Dive. | Skills you to gauze the health of your business.

· Overview of Income Statement – Synopsis, High Level Building Blocks, Deep Dive, and Benchmark Ratios. | Skills you to gauze the profitability, and its sources, of your business.

· Overview of Statement of Cash Flows – Synopsis, High Level Building Blocks, and key areas of interest. | Skills you to gauze the cash generation ability and cash usage areas of your business.

· Calculation of Net Cash Flow from Operating Activities – Adjusting for Non-Cash Expenses, Non-Operating Income, Changes to both Current Assets and Current Liabilities

· Connections between various account of the Income Statement and Balance Sheet – the two-step tango dance between various accounts of the Income Statement, Balance Sheet and the Statement of Cash Flows.

· Definitions for Accounting Profits – Popular one and the Uncommon One

· Key Financial Tasks for a business manager

With the help of this course, you have the unique opportunity to learn one of the important life skills in a very short span of time. The material is comprehensive, structured, and full of horse sense to grasp the big picture about financial statements.

I enjoyed curating it and trust that you will have a joyful experience while taking it.

Welcome Onboard !!!