Interpreting Financial Statements
What you'll learn
- A company's financial statements provide a lot more insight into how the company is operating than many non-financial managers realize. You just need to know how to interpret them and that is what this course is all about! We will demystify the jargon and show you how to see beyond the numbers. As a result you will be able to gain a much better understanding of how a business is operating and what actions or decisions may need to be taken to improve those numbers.
Requirements
- No requirements! Just a willingness to do some work, because you cannot strengthen & develop your financial acumen by just watching the class videos. The real learning is in completing the accompanying exercises which are build into this class. So you have to be willing and able to take some time to complete those exercises.
- You do not require previous knowledge on this topic - I will take you step by step through the different concepts presented in this course
- At the end of the curriculum you'll find a downloadable copy of the class syllabus, which contains a full transcript of the class.
Description
A company's financial statements provide a lot more insight into how the company is operating then many non-financial managers realize. You just need to know how to interpret them and that is what this course is all about!
In this course we'll demystify the jargon and show you how to see beyond the numbers. As a result you will be able to gain a much better understanding of how a business is operating and what actions or decisions may need to be taken to improve those numbers.
To show you how to do that I will be walking you through the financial statements of a number of companies including Apple, Microsoft and Accenture.
However, the ultimate aim is of course to help you to apply this to your own organization. We have therefore included several exercises to help you do just that. So, by the end of this course, you won't have just learned about how to interpret financial statements in general - you'll have actually learned how to apply this to the financial statements of your own company and as a result you'll have a much better understanding of your own company's financial performance and what you can/need to do to help maintain or improve it.
Who this course is for:
- This is a course for non-financial managers and leaders.
Course content
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Instructor
![Brenda van Camp](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
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Brenda van Camp is the founder and CEO of SharpAlice Inc., an organizational & leadership development platform which designs and delivers leadership development programs specifically focused on enabling women to lead as well as working with organizations to help their women & men in leadership work more effectively together.
Prior to founding SharpAlice, Brenda earned her stripes working as a marketing executive for consumer companies. Most recently she was the Chief Marketing Officer of Blurb – the leading online self-publishing platform based in San Francisco. Prior to that, Brenda was the SVP, International Head of Marketing for the international auction house Christie’s. Earlier in her career, Brenda honed her business skills as a consultant for Booz Allen & Hamilton and Publicis Consultants and as an Investment Director for two European venture capital firms.
Having worked & lived in the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, Brenda has a strong international orientation.
Brenda holds a BA and MA in Economics from the University of Amsterdam and professional coaching training from CTI’s Co-Active Coach® Training Program, The Leadership Practices Inventory® (LPI) Coach program and the Presence-Based Coaching® program.