208 pages [76 self-teaching + 132 self-quizzes with detailed answers]
Section 1: How to use ratios. Measure a firm’s financial health. Where to find the numbers to use for ratios.
Section 2: Can the firm pay its short-term obligations? Find out with the current and quick (“acid test”) ratios.
Section 3: Measure liquidity (ability to turn assets into cash). Measure the quality of your company’s A/R and collection efforts and foresee problems in future sales, pricing or inventory with the inventory-turnover and A/R-turnover ratios.
Section 4: Rate a firm’s efficiency. See if sales are providing sufficient return on your company’s investment in fixed assets with the sales-to-fixed-assets ratio. Evaluate your company from one period to another period using the profit-margin ratio.
Section 5: Debt management. Predict when losses will start to hurt your company’s credit rating with the total-liabilities-to-total-assets ratio. Forecast long-term solvency and when the company must stop borrowing with the times-interest-earned ratio.
Section 6: Evaluating return on investment. Uncover the true return on investment with the return-on-investment ratio. Assess return to stockholders with the return-on-stockholders’ equity ratio.
Section 7: More tools for evaluating company performance. Learn how to compare financial statement items year to year and how to evaluate key sections of the income statement and balance sheet.
Section 8: Company v. industry performance. Where to find standards of comparison and industry norms to see how your company is doing.
Section 9: Stock market ratios. Easily measure any stock’s performance the way the pros do. Master the earnings-per-share ratio . . . price-earnings ratio . . . dividend-payout ratio.
Publisher: AIPB
It is very fantastic approach to have the basic idea inorder to do the real Accounting job.
Very helpful
thorough and educative
simple and easy to read materials
I liked this course. Use alot of it at my job, had me take my accounting to the next level which is good.
Great book.
Good, need more details
Good book for reviewing the fundamentals of financial statement anlysis.
Excellent focus on the most important ratios and analysis.
Could have been better edited and more info put into the book. This is a loaded subject.
Book was stolen before I was able to use it. Have not replaced it yet.
A good “go at your own pace” workbook. Each concept is explained in detail.
Very good practical experience training.
Same as prior comments
Read through.
More intensive ratio analysis would make this 5 stars.
Great course on Financial Statements. I learned a lot, even tho I had taken Accounting Courses. Good review.
This course had an easy to understand format and was well written.
I found it to be an excellent guide to analysis and I keep the book by my side.
Above expectation
GOOD
It provides all the essentials you need to know in order to apply them and make descisions according to the company needs.
I thought the course was sufficient and met my requirements.
It was very good and I use it when I teach my students about financial statement analysis.
Most of the information was not new to me – some of the terms were different than the way I learned them – I think overall it was helpful.
I understood more the materials in this course. It provides the clear points and examples.
I understood more the materials in this course. It provides the clear points and examples.
I deal with Financial Statements on a daily basis and this course completely helped me with what I needed to be able to do my job to the best of my ability
Excellent information
BOOK WAS OLD AND MOST OF FINANCIAL IS NOW DONE ON COMPUTERS