The Complete Course to Analyze Financial Statements
What you'll learn
- You will be able to perform a detailed analysis on the financial statements of any company.
- Perform detailed profitability, solvency and liquidity ratios as well as the meaning of each ratio.
- Learn how to calculate the Weighted, Average cost of capital of any business and an template included
- Develop a deep level of understanding on how to improve a business' working capital cycle to improve cash flow
Requirements
- You would need to have a basic understanding of Financial Statements. We will cover the Statement of Financial Position (Balance Sheet) and the Statement of Comprehensive Income (Income Statement) within this course.
Description
This course is designed to take you through the basic and advanced levels of financial ratio analysis and use these various ratios to make decisions surrounding growth of a business, profitability of a business, liquidity of a business and solvency of a business.
Using these newly founded tools, you will be able to take a look at any other business' Financial Statements and determine if you should invest in a business. Furthermore, you will be able to look at any business' Financial Statements and propose certain actions in order to remedy profitability, liquidity and solvency with the skills that you have learnt from this course.
These ratios are used for potential and existing investors looking to invest their own money into a company that will produce a return. With any investment, there is an element of risk. This is why investors make use of key ratios in determining the types of return that they wish to achieve. All of these key rations will be taught to you in this course.
We have also included a lecture on the calculation of weighted average cost of capital (WACC). This video will show you how to calculate the WACC of any business making use of the ratios that you will learn within this course. We have gone a step further and included an Excel template for you to download and make use of in the future.
Who this course is for:
- If you are interested in how you can use ratio analysis to determine various trends and if a company is a good investment, then this is the course for you.
Instructor
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Rowan is the Managing Director and CEO of Golden Egg Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd and its subsidiaries. The group's core purpose is to provide quality education solutions to people within the financial industry across the world.
He formed the company, Aeon Plus (Pty) Ltd, in order for him to deliver high quality lectures to people across South Africa within this sector. However, he realised that the company can deliver the same high quality lectures across borders as well as other courses to assist people in achieving their highest potential. This is when Rowan created Golden Egg Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd and formed companies within the group to deliver high quality education to everyone across the world in many sectors.
He followed his vision and passion and aligned himself with the correct partners and smartest minds within the industry in order for the group to deliver only the best of the best.
He completed his accounting and audit training at an audit firm within South Africa and has 5 years lecturing experience and 13 years auditing and financial accounting experience.
Rowan has been lecturing ACCA modules for 5 years.
Aeon Plus is a Gold Approved Learning Partner with the ACCA.