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Financial Analysis
This course is intended to help you to become more familar with financial terms, statements and the key ratios you need to know to accelerate your businesses growth and success.
What you’ll learn
- Key financial statements and how to interpret them
- The key financial ratios and what to do with them
- How it all fits together to help you to make the right decision at the right time
What is the target audience?
- Small, medium and large business owners and managers
- entrepreneurs
- start-ups
So many owners focus on their gut, without really knowing what is going on in their business. The only way to make good decisions is to have good information.
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1
IntroductionUnderstanding the basics of finance and how this understanding can improve critical business decision making
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Financial Principles
Understanding the terms:
Investments, financing, cash management, stakeholders.
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Financial PerformanceIntroduction to the financial package
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Middle Quiz
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5
The Income Statement
Understand the importance of the income statement, and how you can use it to your advantage
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Statement of Retained Earnings
What is the proper way to track what you have left at the end of the year to invest in the business? This is called the Statement of Retained Earnings
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The Balance Sheet
Assess the health of your business.
The balance sheet pulls together the Income Statement and Retained Earnings to provide a picture of the health of your business
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The Statement of Cash Flows
What is the movement of cash through the business? How is it tracked?
This is answered by the Statement of Cash Flows
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Financial Ratios
What are the financial ratios that tell you how your business is performing?
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Liquidity Ratios
Will our business be able to handle blips in the market?
Can we take advantage of low cost inventory?
Can we invest in new equipment?
The Liquidity Ratio can help provide answers and insights into these questions
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Operating Ratios
Operating ratios help to determine the decisions that involve spending money to sustain your business, and to help it grow.
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