Preparing and Analysing Financial Statements
Prepare the income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement, and read them using financial ratios.
Course contents
- 1The income statement
- 2The balance sheet
- 3The cash flow statement
- 4Financial ratios: liquidity, profitability, activity and leverage
- 5Horizontal and vertical analysis
What you gain from the course
You can prepare the three statements, read a business’s position from them and explain it to management.
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Foundation level
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The Accounting Cycle: From Journal Entry to Balance Sheet
Follow a transaction step by step: entry, posting, trial balance, adjustments, then the financial statements.
Period-End Adjustments, Bank Reconciliation and Closing
End-of-period adjustments, the bank reconciliation statement, and the steps for closing the books.