Advanced Financial Analysis

Introduction:

Having a detailed understanding of financial statements is critical to assessing financial risk, and the rapid change in financial statement standards makes this a continuing challenge.

This course brings together the key elements of financial statement analysis. We help participants develop their skills, enabling them to ask the right questions and see the real risks facing businesses and investors. 

The course uses the IFRS reference reporting framework. Each credit issue will be analysed from theoretical and practical perspectives, using recent market examples for learners to assess cash flow and credit implications.

The course concludes with a comprehensive case study designed to bring all the topics together in a real-world example.

This interactive Advanced Financial Statements Analysis training course will update and develop your skills of analysing financial information, business activities, and the key risks faced in today’s uncertain economic, political, and physical global business environment. 

It will guide you through the key steps of analysing financial statements, evaluating new investments, and measuring the performance of your organisation.

 Throughout this course, the participants will be able to relate their learning to real-world issues and problems and develop their ability to generate growth and improve profitability, as well as pinpointing problem areas for remedial action and will have the opportunity to acquire financial skills and technical knowledge that will enable them to manage more effectively.

Course Objectives:

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• List and differentiate between the important components of basic financial statements
• Explain financial statements’ ratios and design Excel sheets and graphs for financial statements analysis
• Give examples of creative accounting schemes and discuss the validity of the used accounting rules
• Assess the quality of financial reports and evaluate quality of the reported earnings and cash flows
• Analyse the financial position and performance of a company over a period of time and draw conclusions regarding its sustainability
• Forecast financial statements based on the analysis of the historical performance of a company
• Analyse and interpret an organisation’s annual report and accounts
• Use ratio analysis to evaluate financial position and financial performance
• Use analytical techniques to forecast future performance
• Critically evaluate the impact on financial position
• Performance of the subjective nature of accounting policies
• Identify the impact of profit, cash flow and risk on capital investment projects and business valuations