Financial Statement Analysis (Classroom & Synchronous e-Learning)
About This Course
This course focuses on financial analysis, which is an essential exercise when understanding and valuing an enterprise. We will discuss how to read and analyse the performance of companies using the financial statements, which represent managers’ views of the company’s financial position. Additionally, we will examine various accounting standards and disclosure practices as well as the concerns and incentives of
management when preparing financial statements. This course will be helpful for those managers who want to understand how their decisions might impact their company’s profitability and valuation.
In summary, learners will be making business and financial analyses, derive business insights from companies' financial reports, whilst understanding the managers' and auditor's opinions and qualifications on the business data presented. Overall, it enhances the ability to make strategic decisions and understand the financial dynamics of businesses.
Preclusion: For NUS students undertaking thiscourse THEN must not read BMA5303 - Financial Statement Analysis
What You'll Learn
• Articulate the purpose and the environment of accounting and explain its role in business.
• Evaluate the basic elements and uses of the balance sheet, the income statement, and the statement
of cash flows.
• Review and evaluate operating, investing, and financing activities of your organization using the financial statements.
• Evaluate the relationships between financial statement numbers and use ratios in analysing a company’s performance.
• Evaluate companies’ historical performance and predict their prospects.
• Communicate the financial implications of managerial decisions to stakeholders.
Entry Requirements
Course Preclusion: IF undertaking this course THEN must not read BMA5303 - Financial Statement Analysis