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
LINDA –
Could have been better edited and more info put into the book. This is a loaded subject.
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PATTY –
Book was stolen before I was able to use it. Have not replaced it yet.
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DIANE –
A good “go at your own pace” workbook. Each concept is explained in detail.
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KRIS –
Very good practical experience training.
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PATRICIA –
Same as prior comments
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W –
Read through.
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J –
More intensive ratio analysis would make this 5 stars.
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LINDA –
Great course on Financial Statements. I learned a lot, even tho I had taken Accounting Courses. Good review.
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KATHLEEN –
This course had an easy to understand format and was well written.
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RONALD –
I found it to be an excellent guide to analysis and I keep the book by my side.
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JEMIL –
Above expectation
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HERBERT –
GOOD
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JOSE –
It provides all the essentials you need to know in order to apply them and make descisions according to the company needs.
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EUGENE –
I thought the course was sufficient and met my requirements.
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SONIA –
It was very good and I use it when I teach my students about financial statement analysis.
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RHONDA –
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.
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SALLY –
I understood more the materials in this course. It provides the clear points and examples.
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SALLY –
I understood more the materials in this course. It provides the clear points and examples.
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TAMMY –
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
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MARILYN –
Excellent information
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ANN –
BOOK WAS OLD AND MOST OF FINANCIAL IS NOW DONE ON COMPUTERS
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