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RICEx: Financial Statement Analysis: Fundamental Ratio Analysis

Enhance your skills as an investor or an analyst, from pulling a firm’s financial statements to conducting both basic and advanced ratio analysis.

Welcome to Financial Statement Analysis: Fundamental Ratio Analysis, a practical online course designed to increase your ability to extract, interpret, and use information from financial statements. We will emphasize the understanding, organizing, and summarizing of financial data for decision-making purposes.

Financial Statement Analysis: Fundamental Ratio Analysis
5 weeks
3–5 hours per week
Self-paced
Progress at your own speed
Free
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Starts Nov 26

About this course

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Rice University’s online business courses provide a convenient, yet interactive and hands-on, way to learn or brush up on the practical skills needed to analyze corporate financial statements.

Taught by an industry professional from Rice Business, learners will explore the financial analysis journey, from extracting firm specific financial information to conducting an advanced DuPont analysis. Through a combination of engaging lectures, practical case studies, and hands-on exercises, students will gain invaluable insights into the principles and best practices that will allow them to confidently examine firm financial information and use it to analyze the firm’s position and performance.

Recommendation: As a next step in building your financial statement analysis skills, we recommend completing the second course in this series, Financial Statement Analysis – Company Forecasting and Valuation, after completing Fundamental Ratio Analysis.

At a glance

  • Language: English
  • Video Transcript: English

What you'll learn

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You will be able to:

  • Apply your knowledge of financial accounting to real-world scenarios, reinforcing your understanding of key concepts and practices.

  • Analyze and effectively evaluate financial information by identifying reliable sources and applying appropriate analytical techniques.

  • Interpret segment disclosures and utilize the provided information to inform decision-making and financial analysis.

  • Perform both basic and advanced ratio analysis to assess a company’s financial health, drawing conclusions based on quantitative data.

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Who should attend:

  • Aspiring and current investors, analysts, and corporate lenders

  • MBA students and undergraduate or graduate students in business-related fields

  • General managers and financial analysts

  • Financial advisors, asset managers, and risk managers

  • Quantitative researchers and developers in financial services

  • Professionals servicing the financial industry looking to enhance their company evaluation and analysis skills

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