Financial analysis and its role in the enterprise management
Methods and information used in the financial analysis. The importance of company, industry and the broad economic environment research.
Financial reporting. The content of financial statements. The factors influencing the particular financial categories, data gathering.
The main objective, functions and the scope of the preliminary financial statements analysis. The analysis of the balance sheet, profit and loss account, changes in the capital structure and the use of additional information.
Requirements for credible financial analysis. Description of the manipulation methods used for cooking of financial statements and their detection in the financial analysis process. Creative accounting vs. analysis
Cash-flow analysis.
The ratio analysis of liquidity and the management efficiency.
Profitability analysis and the fundamentals of the bottom line. The financial ratios decomposition system. Du'Pont analysis.
The assessment of the value added as the additional element to memorial approach to evaluate the profitability. The methods and tools of corporate evaluation analysis.
The methods of corporate evaluation.
The break-even point. The assessment of operational leverage. Risk analysis.
Debt. Financial leverage. Cost of capital.
The identification of financial threats and the worsening of financial standing. The early warnings systems.
The banking analysis. The practical aspects of qualitative-quantitative analysis. The scoring models. The main functions of ratings.
Investment projects efficiency evaluation.
