Financial Analysis: A Business Decision Guide ON DEMAND
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19.0 Credits
Member Price $87.00
Non-Member Price $100.00
Overview
In today’s fast-paced business environment, companies frequently face complex decisions that hinge on a detailed understanding of financial data. However, extracting meaningful insights from financial statements and performing effective financial analysis can be daunting. Financial Analysis: A Business Decision Guide is designed to address this challenge. This course offers a deep dive into various analysis tools that can bolster business decisions, such as price optimization, constraint management, and credit granting. It covers crucial aspects like financial leverage, capital structure, foreign exchange risk, financial forecasting, and discounted cash flow analysis. By providing techniques for valuing acquisitions and explaining how to interpret financial statements, this course empowers professionals to make informed, strategic business decisions based on robust financial analysis.
Highlights
Overview of financial analysis. Accounting issues impacting the financials. Cost-volume-profit analysis. Cost object analysis. Credit decisions. Financial leverage. Dividend analysis. Interest rate risk analysis. Managing the rate of growth. Discounted cash flow techniques. The lease or buy decision. The enhancement of shareholder value.
Prerequisites
None.
Designed For
CPAs, auditors, consultants, and financial and managerial professionals.
Objectives
Specify the situations in which different types of financial analysis could be used. Specify the issues to consider when making recommendations as the result of financial analysis, and more.
Preparation
None.
Notice
None.
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Steven Bragg, Western CPE
Steven M. Bragg, CPA, is a full-time book and course author who has written more than 70 business books. He provides Western CPE with self-study courses in the areas of accounting and finance, with an emphasis on the practical application of accounting standards and management techniques. A sampling of his courses include the The New Controller Guidebook, The GAAP Guidebook, Accountants’ Guidebook, and Closing the Books: An Accountant’s Guide. He also manages the Accounting Best Practices podcast.
Steven has been the CFO or controller of both public and private companies and has been a consulting manager with Ernst & Young and an auditor with Deloitte & Touche. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a Master of Finance from Bentley College, and a BA from the University of Maine (summa cum laude).
Non-Member Price $100.00
Member Price $87.00