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Learn how easy it can be to: ✓ Compute liquidity ratios (ability to meet short-term obligations) ✓ Apply profitability ratios ✓ Calculate debt-management ratios ✓ Use return-to-investors ratios ✓ Analyze year-to-year performance ✓ Compare your company to others in your industry. Makes you invaluable to your company. Plus—stock-market ratios for your personal use. Double-quiz in each section assures that you master it.

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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

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  1. MARY

    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.

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  2. THOMAS

    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.

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    Very informative!

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  5. MATHIAS

    This is most helpful for profit making organizations. To expand their businesses in terms of new investments these analysis are very important.

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  6. JUTTA

    This course was a bit more challenging to me, however, instruction helped me to get through.

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  7. ARLENE

    Great self study book, well structured, great for beginners being exposed to financial analysis for the first time

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  8. BEN

    Clear and concise.

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  9. MARY

    Very good and sufficient

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  10. DESIREE

    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.

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  11. MIA

    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.

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  12. CHIDROOP

    Presently clearly and concisely with adequate examples.

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  13. DEBRA

    Very informative and comprehensive

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  14. ELLEN

    Great book, comprehensive and easy to understand!

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  15. HERBERT

    excellent for use with my clients needing a better understanding of their progress from financial statements. Helped me brush up on my math too…

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  16. CARROLL

    Easy to follow calculations for financial investing. It is essential to be able to evaluate streng, management, efficiency, profitability and liquidity.

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  17. NARINE

    Very helpful and easy to read, a lot of practice tests.

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  18. CYNTHIA

    This was extremely helpful to me. I enjoyed this course very much.

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  19. SOPHIA

    Very interesting and to the point. I really enjoyed it

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  20. SANDY

    I really enjoyed this course. The information was clearly presented and I was able to apply it immediately to my current job.

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  21. JUDY

    Well written, easy to understand and retain; examples & quizzes add an extra reinforcement to knowledge base.

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  22. SHERRY

    Excellent

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  23. KENNEDY

    Very informative and I have gained more knowledge using this book

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  24. PAUL

    The information I learned was very helpful.

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  25. BETH

    Great refresher course

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  26. TERESA

    The workbook and exercises were well written making the learning process easier.

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  27. KAREN

    Excellent book for a depth of understanding of the financial statements.

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  28. CHERYL

    The financial statements could be easier to read if they were a bit larger type.

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  29. GEORGE

    The practice exercises and final examination helped my confidence and preparation for completing Mastering Financial Statement Analysis.

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