Academic Catalog

BFIN 316 FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS

This course focuses on the three major financial statements: the balance sheet, the income statement and the statement of cash flows. For each financial statement, the course details its purpose, construction, pertinent ratios and common-size analysis. Understanding these concepts allow a student to evaluate trends in performance over several measurement periods and to compare the performance of different companies over the same period(s). Additional analyst tools such as EPS calculation are also covered.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

BFIN 305

Offered

Semester 1