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
AMY –
remember it from the certification course and use it as a reference
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PATRICK –
Need improvement
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ELIZABETH –
loved it
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KIANOUSH –
It was great.
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WILLIAM –
I believe the course for Financial Statement Analysis to be a very good one. The methodology of the author to create a mock company and use its statements throughout illustrations of various analytical tools was very effective. Insights to the potential issues behind changes in the financial performance of the companies were very well presented. This is a great course for the subject and I recommend it to my accounting colleagues.
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VICTORIA –
helpful
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JENNIFER –
Great! Helps too in explaining a clients financials to them.
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BENJAMIN –
Excellent.
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JENNY –
A little confusing in the wording at times, but overall a great learning tool.
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LARI –
Very Helpful In qualifying subcontractors
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SUSAN –
Very good and useful. Clear, concise and good examples.
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JEAN –
The book provides the knowledge of basic theory.
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KATHRYN –
It was very good
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BEATA –
Great course material.
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SHERRY –
Enjoyed very much.
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MICHAEL –
The book provided good information in describing statements
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KELLEY –
I found it to be easy to understand and follow
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ALDO –
good book
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EDDA –
This is a very useful tool and resource
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WILLIAM –
good course could go in more ratio and business management analysis
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MARJIE –
Same as #1
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SOLOMON –
It is very fantastic approach to have the basic idea inorder to do the real Accounting job.
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LINA –
Very helpful
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SAMUEL –
thorough and educative
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AHMAD –
simple and easy to read materials
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CAROL –
I liked this course. Use alot of it at my job, had me take my accounting to the next level which is good.
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SHERRIE –
Great book.
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FIRDOUS –
Good, need more details
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MYLES –
Good book for reviewing the fundamentals of financial statement anlysis.
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DAVID –
Excellent focus on the most important ratios and analysis.
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