This free online accounting course explains how to use financial statement analysis to improve decision-making. This course on financial statement analysis provides an overview of financial accounting ratios and financial statement analysis theory that analysts and accountants use in financial analysis and management. We help you to develop a technical understanding of financial accounting ratio analysis. We also explain how to navigate published financial statements of an organisation to extract the information you need to make smart financial decisions.
| College | Alison |
| Course ID | 192366 |
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | In This Free Course, You Will Learn How To • Define the purpose of financial statement analysis and the objectivity of individual ratios in different situations • Recognise the key elements an analysis needs to consider when implementing an analytical framework • Identify the stakeholders and users of information for the company under review • Analyse financial performance using a company's annual financial statements and the notes to the published statements • Calculate key financial statement-based figures like capital employed and working capital • Assess financial performance using appropriate classes of ratios such as activity and performance ratios • Compare the performance of different entities using standard ratios and defined concepts to enhance comparability • Contrast the performance of a single entity between different periods using consistent accounting policies |
| Course Code | 1332 |
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