الخطوط العريضة
Unit 1
A Framework for Business Analysis and Valuation using Financial Statement
Information - Fundamental Analysis
- The framework and hierarchy of financial analysis; operating , financial , and investment analysis
- Economic consequences of accounting numbers, thorough analysis of the information content of the Income statement, balance sheet, Cash flow statement.
- Introduction to the use of accounting numbers in valuation and credit decisions, the effect of operating cash flow and earnings per share on company value
- Evidence on the impact of earnings on stock prices, EPS with Stock prices
- The relation between accounting and strategy, the impact of the marketing strategy on profit margin and sales growth for example
- Introduction to financial analysis tools, the ratio analysis using financial statements -and using external non financial statement analysis as economic growth rates
- Application and interpretation of financial analysis tools, horizontal analysis versus vertical analysis
Unit 2
Ratios Analysis, Cash Flows Analysis, Accounting Adjustments, and Forecasting Financial Statements
- Financial statement ratios; liquidity, Solvency, activity, Debt, profitability, market ratios
- The statement of cash flows and cash flow analysis tools; the concept of cash flow adequacy ratios
- Using key financial ratios as ROI, ROCE, EBIT MARGINS,EBITDA
- Developing forecasts and building financial statement forecasts
- Case study
Unit 3
A Framework for Business Analysis and Valuation using Financial Statement
- Communicating with the capital markets
- Introduction to the concept of required return and cost of capital
- What earnings numbers are the right ones, are we talking about the accounting profits or the economic profits
- The EVA indicator in measuring corporate efficiency in maximizing shareholders wealth.
- The use of accounting numbers in valuation – free cash flows valuation, residual income valuation, and accounting-based valuation multiples
- Business analysis and valuation: implementing the tools
- Case study
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Participants entering this program should have a basic understanding of financial statements, and some background and relevant professional experience in finance, economics, business administration, or consulting.
The typical participant will be a commercial banker, investment banker, securities analyst, portfolio manager, corporate financial manager or project analyst, consultant, or other finance-oriented professional seeking to expand their understanding of financial statements and analysis skills in order to be capable of undertaking professional responsibilities that require a greater ability to analyze such statements with greater confidence and at greater levels of sophistication.