Course summary

The main objective of this training is to acquire and/or enhance the knowledge and competencies to understand and implement a thorough financial statements analysis and take informed and proper investment, strategic, and operational decisions.

Course description

The objective of this course is to provide you with a framework for analyzing a firm’s past performance, estimating its future performance, and valuing its equity. The course integrates key concepts from accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy and applies them to financial decision-making. The course focuses on teaching you to interpret numbers in financial statements. You should leave the course with the ability to generate reasonably accurate (or at least logically consistent) forecasts of a firm's future financial performance, including revenues, earnings, asset balances, and free cash flows.

Learning outcomes

• The main objective of this training is to acquire and/or enhance the knowledge and competencies to understand and implement a thorough financial statements analysis and take informed and proper investment, strategic, and operational decisions,
• Appreciate the strategic context behind modern financial statement analysis,
• ­ Gain intuitive insights through analysis of the accounts and how to interpret them,
• ­ Learn about the common areas, methods, and dangers of distortion and how to spot this,
• ­ Understand how to analyze accounts through ratio, cash flow, and liquidity analysis,
• ­ Get to grips with the key reasons for prospective analysis,
• ­ Develop an ability to look into the future through financial statement forecasting and an introduction to valuation.

Who should take this course?

• Managers or consultants responsible for the effective management of financial affairs and strategy formulation of their organization,
• Individuals seeking to gain comprehensive knowledge of Financial Statement Reporting concepts, processes, and principles,
• Advisors involved in organizational strategy formulation and financial planning,
• Investors in a private organizations,
• Lending officers,
• Undergraduate and Graduate students.

Why should I take this course?

• To gain intuitive insights through analysis of the accounts and how to interpret them,
• To understand how to analyze accounts through ratio, cash flow, and liquidity analysis, To get to grips with the key reasons for prospective analysis,
• To develop an ability to look into the future through financial statement forecasting and an introduction to valuation,
• To ­learn about the common areas, methods, and dangers of distortion and how to spot this.

What will I learn in this course?

• Transactional accounting vs. economic perception worlds,
• A structured approach for analysis (accounting analysis, financial analysis, and prospective analysis),
• Types and purpose of financial reports and statements,
• A structure for effective initial reading of the annual report/audited accounts,
• The importance of strategic analysis for understanding the life cycle context of financial statements,
• Business model – used to understand the ‘business’,
• Review of fundamental accounting principles, concepts, and mechanics underlying financial statements,
• Introduction to the structure and format of ‘core’ financial statements including consolidated or group accounts.

Certificate

A certificate of participation is given upon completion of this course.  

PAYMENT BY BANK TRANSFER

Apart from credit card payments, you can make your payment by transferring to the UBAN number.

Account Number: 10-304-0000134885 – NEAR EAST UNIVERSITY LTD.

Near East Bank – UBAN: CT16139050100103040000134885 It is mandatory to write your Name – Surname and E-mail address during payment by money order.

After the payment, send your receipt to info.estudybox@neu.edu.tr with your Name – Surname, and E-mail address.