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Financial analysis: Compare performance of companies

Name: Financial analysis: Compare performance of companies
Rating: 4.4 (267 reviews)

Learn financial analysis skills - Performance measurement and evaluation of companies using an objective scorecard

Created byAshish Agarwal

Last updated 3/2026

English

What you'll learn

Ratio analysis on financial numbers
Framework for performance comparison between companies
Operating health metrics of a company
Financing health metrics of a company
Scorecard framework to evaluate the performance of companies

Course content

1 section • 22 lectures • 1h 11m total length

Agenda of the course1:54
Welcome to the course.
Introduction to performance analysis of companies2:24
In this lecture, we will see what is FSA and under what scenarios we need to do this,
Basics of financial statements6:46
In this lecture, we introduce the financial statements and explain how we read and interpret the income statement
Download the illustration exercise for the course0:01
Illustration for this course5:06
In this lecture, we understand how we interpret the balance sheet.
How to measure performance of companies3:20
In this lecture, we introduce a short framework to analyze companies from financial statements. Here we will talk more about how to analyze the operating health of the company.
What are the key metrics for measuring performance of companies9:27
In this lecture, we study how to analyze the financing health of the company.
Calculation of operating metrics for company 15:39
In this lecture, we introduce specific metrics to calculate the operating health
Calculation of financing metrics for company 13:43
In this lecture, we introduce specific metrics to calculate the financing health.
Calculation of metrics for company 25:05
In this lecture, we apply the framework using a real life example to calculate the metrics
Calculation of metrics for other companies0:43
Calculation of average metrics for all companies6:50
Visual representation of data for all companies1:44
Scorecard: Ranking of operating metrics of companies6:15
Scorecard: Ranking of financing metrics5:34
Choosing the best company3:12
Recap of what we learnt2:14
Practice Assignment : DIFFICULTY LEVEL - EASY0:37
SOLUTION TO PRACTICE ASSIGNMENT0:05
Please review our course - we need your feedback0:19
Queries0:12
Contact address.
Please provide us your valuable feedback0:44

Requirements

Absolutely none. We will teach everything from scratch.

Description

Welcome to our best selling Financial analysis - course.

We are glad to meet you. If only we could shake hands!

Are you wondering how is this course going to be useful to you?

Hey, did you watch the promo video? If not, please do.

If you are looking to learn how to evaluate and measure performance, then this course will prepare you for the job.

This is especially good for senior folks in an organization who want to evaluate companies performance.

You don't need to be a Finance expert for this course.

We will teach you an objective framework to evaluate and measure performance of companies.

What makes our course different from others?

Our course content is unique - you learn exactly what you are required to do in your daily work.

You get 2 hours of crisp synthesized practical real life illustrations of all concepts.

You will be carrying out the real life illustrations along with the instructor.

Same set up as the instructor. All illustration spreadsheets are shared.

It's almost like as if somebody is guiding you in person to carry out the various analysis.

You are going to love our instructor's teaching style.

He makes it very engaging and fun learning experience.

You will have practice assignments / course challenges with varying difficulty levels to test your learning from the course.

Our support team responds to any course queries within 24 hours of your request.

And of course, the price is competitive.

What will you learn in this course?

Everything required to measure, evaluate and compare performance of companies.

You can watch the FREE course previews in the CURRICULUM section.

Read through the entire CURRICULUM section if you can.

All modules with details of lectures are provided.

What next?

Well, we sincerely hope to see you inside the course.

We wish you well and good luck.

Still confused? Don't hesitate to reach out.

Who this course is for:

Current Financial Analysts
Aspiring Financial Analysts
Start-up founders
Consultants
Non finance professionals