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
MICHELE –
I really liked this course! I would’ve liked if it even went a little deeper with some of the explanations.
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SHENG –
I really like this course.Thank you
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JENNIFER –
Easy to read book with good real world examples.
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DARLENE –
he information was very well organized and I love the test at the end of each chapter. The test and quiz help to prepare you for the final test. I do believe that working the information in the matter inwhich this course is laid out is the most effective manner.
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DENISE –
What I have studied is very helpful
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TRICIA –
This was my favorite AIPB course.
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MYLES –
The course gave me a solid understanding of how to create a cash flow statement and value of its relavence.
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SUSAN –
A great refresher. Very intuitive.
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ELISE –
The book was clear and organized well.
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LINDA –
Somewhat difficult to follow
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