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:

1. Introduction: Purpose of financial statement, key aspects of financial statement
2. Information identification: Three key financial statements
3. Calculation: Calculation of profitability and rate of return of assets, calculate the ratios in long and short-term risk analysis
4. Debt and profit: Determine debt and profit risk using ratio analysis
5. Adjust for differences: Adjust for differences in reporting to put companies on a comparable basis

In this workshop, participants will learn:

1. Understand the need for financial analysis
2. Interpret financial data
3. Perform financial analysis
4. Report financial analysis and report to stakeholders