Dive into Financial Statement Analysis with our fun and easy guide, designed to connect the dots from numbers to real business insights.
This course takes you on a fun journey through financial statements, helping you see how every detail fits into the bigger picture—just like connecting the dots in a coloring book!
A zoom-in, zoom-out, connect-the-dots guide to understanding financial statements, and analysing companies
This is a zoom-in, zoom-out, connect-the-dots tour of Financial Statement Analysis
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'connect the dots': Financial Statement Analysis gets a bad rep because its hard to connect the nitty-gritty of the financial statements to the company as a whole. This course makes a serious effort to do exactly that.
'zoom in': Getting the details is very important in corporate finance - a small typo, or a minor misunderstanding can cost a company big. This course gets the details right where they are important.
'zoom out': Details are important, but not always. You probably don't care about the nitty gritty of accounting for contingent liabilities if you don't know what accounts payable are. This course knows when to switch to the big picture.
What's Covered:
Corporate Finance Introduced: partnerships, proprietorships and the corporation
The Agency Problem: How auditors, the board of directors and the capital markets regulator play a role
Financial Statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Statement of Comprehensive Income and Cash Flow Statement at exactly the right level of detail
Ratios: Five important types of ratios: liquidity ratios, leverage ratios, turnover ratios, profitability ratios and valuation ratios
Dupont's Identity: Return-on-equity can be decomposed into 3 elements: profits, asset-leanness and leverage.
External Financing Needed (EFN) and the Sustainable Rate of Growth: How fast can a company grow if it chooses to forgo external funding? Every startup should know this, really.
Common Accounting Shenanigans: The playbook of financial statement cheats has been studied by auditors and regulators - learn from history so you are not condemned to repeat it.
Case Studies:
Understanding a company entirely from its investor filings
Facebook: Fast-growing and profitable, this is the dream stock right now.
LinkedIn: Versatile, but struggling to break through - the jury seems out on LinkedIn
Twitter: Bleeding red and slowing growth - Twitter seems to be in trouble.
Interpret financial statements - the Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Statement of Cash Flows
Parse SEC filings such as the 10K and 10Q to understand the business model of any company entirely from its investor filings
Calculate ratios in all major categories: liquidity, leverage, turnover, profitability and valuation
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Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years  working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore. Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at...
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It is very specific and broken down into pieces for a common man to understand.
Very unbalanced. Go very deep in accounting details, but do not explain the big concepts.
Technically there is lack of synchronisation between sound and image many times
The accent is very far from standard English making some time very difficult to understand if you are not used to Indian English.
Good introductory course so far, covering the foundations from the ground up
its a good course to get idea on financial statement analysis
Excellent course for those students who want to develop their careers in corporate finance. All these concepts related to corporate finance are being taught well with real life examples.
Lecturer has a strong accent and lectures so far have been very monotonous and lack good examples and graphics.
Lots to revise on F&A fundamentals
The explanation to the concepts in the course was easy and clear to understand.The teaching pedagogy involving the live examples really helped in comprehending the concepts well.
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Rashi D.
This course is very useful for those who wants to learn financial analysis of any company … course is very well explained and very easy to learn