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Introduction
Financial statements are the primary information that firms publish about themselves and the stakeholders like: Shareholders, Lenders, Creditors, Analysts, Management are the primary users of financial statements, keeping in view the statutory and legal requirements of the country. Financial statement analysis is an exceptionally powerful tool for these users. Financial reporting plays a critical role in the functioning of the capital market intermediaries (banks, venture capitalists, DFIs, FIIs, auditors, financial analysts, credit rating agencies, financial press).
Financial intermediaries rely on the information in the financial statements to analyze investment opportunities and supplement this data with the other sources of information. This course is designed to help achieve a better understanding of the Fundamentals of Finance (as a domain) and an in depth understanding of the Financial Statements.
Course Objective:
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Understand value creation by companies and finance intelligence in formation, running and managing a business enterprise.
- Understand Financial Statements, valuation of Future Cash Flows and capital investment decision for project analysis and evaluation
- Be equipped with skill sets and techniques required in business for planning and analyzing operational, revenue and cost information to make effective business decisions.
- Be equipped with accounting measurement practices and be able to make adjustments necessary for careful analysis for various stakeholders of a company.
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Course Outline
Introduction to Business Finance
The Income Statement / Profit Loss Statement
- Revenue & Gross Margin
- Operating Expense & Net Income
- Gross & Net Margin Explained
- Advanced Income Statement
- Revenue Recognition
- Expense Recognition
- Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Revenue & Margins
- Analyzing Dominos Income Statement - Debt & Interest
The Balance Sheet
- Balance Sheet Basics - Assets
- Balance Sheet Basics - Liabilities & Net Worth
- Financial Crisis of 2008
- Dominos Pizza Balance Sheet
- Analyzing Dominos Pizza's Balance Sheet
- Double Entry Book-keeping
- Working Capital and Debt / Equity Ratio and Return on Net Worth
The Cash Flow Statement
- Cash Flow Statement Basics
- Building a Cash Flow Statement
- Analyzing a Cash Flow Statement
- Capex
- Depreciation & Amortization
- Taxes
The basics of budgeting
- Vision and strategy
- Who plans and writes the budget?
- Types of budgets
- Capital, revenue and cash
- Capitalisation threshold
- Performance
- Targets
- Slack
- Contingency
- Budget holder's rivalry
- Suboptimal
- Methods
- Incremental
- Zero based
- Priority based
- Break even
How to create a budget
- Revenue budgets
- Information sources and cost behaviour
- Activity changes
- Seasons
- Technology
- Social trends
- Economy
- Completing a budget and calculating profit
- Monitoring budgets
- Variance analysis
- Flexed budget
- The need to use information to reforecast
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