Understanding Financial Statement

This workshop aims to summarise the process of making informed decisions in three key areas: investment, financing and operations.

Banking professionals responsible for evaluating management success in these areas can turn to this curriculum for a set of crucial financial statement analysis techniques, culminating in business valuation principles. Topics covered include:

• Introduction: Purpose of financial statement, key aspects of financial statement

• Information identification: Three key financial statements

• Calculation: Calculation of profitability and rate of return of assets, calculate the ratios in long and short-term risk analysis

• Debt and profit: Determine debt and profit risk using ratio analysis

• Adjust for differences: Adjust for differences in reporting to put companies on a comparable basis

. In this workshop, participants will learn:

• Understand the need for financial analysis

• Interpret financial data

• Perform financial analysis

• Report financial analysis and report to stakeholders