Analysis and Interpretation of Financial Statements

Course details

This course focuses on financial statements and its interpretation. It will teach you the accounting standard that guides the preparation and presentation of financial statements. If you are a non-accountant that wants to understand the financial reports prepared by accountants, this course is for you.

This course teaches IAS 1, which is the accounting standard on presentation of financial statements, it looks at the objective and scope of IAS 1, the general features of financial statements as well as the structure and content of financial statements.

This course teaches how to analyse and interpret financial statements using financial ratios; you will learn the categories of ratios which covers the following:

- Profitability ratios

- Working capital ratios

- Liquidity ratios

- Debt ratios

- Investors ratios.