Forecasting Financial Statements & Valuation for Accountants
By External Provider
About this course
The objective of this course is to provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze, interpret, understand and use financial information to make informed decisions. We will discuss financial reporting from a user’s perspective, use a variety of tools to break apart financial reports into meaningful units for analysis, forecast financial statements, and value a firm. This course is intended to give you exposure to the issues facing users of financial statements. You will better understand your role in the financial reporting process if you know how the financial statements will ultimately be used. Beyond the Financials: Insights, Analysis and Valuations will require you to think critically about issues for which there can be more than one “correct” answer. Hence, your analysis and conclusions must be based on sound assumptions and well-constructed analysis and arguments.
What you will learn
- Highlight the need to use information beyond the financials when performing financial statement analysis and valuation.
- Introduce forecasting and discuss the uses of forecasted data.
- Explain why calculating valuations are important and the many uses of determining a valuation.
- Illustrate examples as to how to calculate valuations using different models