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 was very useful to learn how to analyze financial statement in detail from all the aspects.
Excellent book
very easy to understand and learn the material
Great book and course.
The course provided a good analysis of ways to look at and use financial statements for planning purposes.
A good review course.
This is a real good refresh course for what I learned from College Accounting, Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting and etc. I am planning to take the Final Exam as soon as I finish reading the book. I enjoy reading the book.
Clear and concise explanations. Tons of examples.
good resources
Excellent course! It was a great refresher for me as I am working on expanding my practice to include financial analysis services to my clients.
I really enjoyed this common sense and valuable training course. It has shown me the value of financially analyzing my own business and learning where improvement needs to be made.
Very informative!
Excellent
This is most helpful for profit making organizations. To expand their businesses in terms of new investments these analysis are very important.
This course was a bit more challenging to me, however, instruction helped me to get through.
Great self study book, well structured, great for beginners being exposed to financial analysis for the first time
Clear and concise.
Very good and sufficient
The material is well laid out with ample quizzes to test your understanding of the chapter just studied. The final exam really tests your understanding of the material and the questions are well written and tests your knowledge.
I found this course to be easily applied which, for me, is the best way to learn; thank you for being current with information that can be used immediately in the workplace.
Presently clearly and concisely with adequate examples.
Very informative and comprehensive
Great book, comprehensive and easy to understand!
excellent for use with my clients needing a better understanding of their progress from financial statements. Helped me brush up on my math too…
Easy to follow calculations for financial investing. It is essential to be able to evaluate streng, management, efficiency, profitability and liquidity.
Very helpful and easy to read, a lot of practice tests.
This was extremely helpful to me. I enjoyed this course very much.
Very interesting and to the point. I really enjoyed it
I really enjoyed this course. The information was clearly presented and I was able to apply it immediately to my current job.
Well written, easy to understand and retain; examples & quizzes add an extra reinforcement to knowledge base.