INTRO TO FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS


Performance Evaluation - Basic Financial Statement Analysis allows you to evaluate your business's performance over time, identify trends, and pinpoint areas of strength and weakness. By understanding key financial ratios and metrics, you can assess profitabliity, liquidity, and solvency to gauge the overall health of your business.

Decision Making - With the ability to analyze financial statements, you can make strategic decisions with confidence. Whether its setting pricing strategies or determining optimal allocation of resources, financial analysis provides the insights needed to navigate complex business challenges and seize opportunities for growth.

Risk Management - With Financial Statement Analysis you can identify potential risks to your business, such as changes in liquidity, a drop in Gross Profit Margin, or increasing operating costs. By identifying these trends you can respond to potential threats proactively.

Communication - Being able to communicate analytics to internal staff, lenders and business partners demonstrates your knowledge of the business. Presenting clear and concise financial information will build trust, credibility, and transparency, fostering stronger relationships and enhancing your business's reputation.

Included in this session to help you develop a solid understanding of Financial Statement Analysis:

  • definitions of the basic financial ratios
  • learn how to compute eight balance sheet ratios
  • a worksheet with examples of financial ratios for five companies
  • a list of common Income Statement ratios by industry

ALL CONTENT IS PURELY FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND DOES NOT INVOLVE PERSONALIZED ADVICE OR SERVICES.