All Startup founders and Business owners, executives must get a basic understanding of finance and accounting to enable themselves to be able to read financial statements, analyse results and the impact of their business decisions.

This course was recorded during a live class with startup founders who do not have any formal background in accounting and finance. Course contents, speed and explanations are designed keeping in mind those users, hence other users may find it slow and sometimes repetitive. I repeated a few things just to make my audience understand and absorb concepts.

The course includes

Analyzing financial numbers for making business decisions

1. Analyzing Financial Statements in Details.
2. Ratio Analysis
   • Why Ratio – Usefulness and Limitations
   • Profitability Ratio
   • Liquidity Ratios
   • Working Capital
   • Asset Utilization
   • Return Ratios
   • Special Purpose
3. How to use Ratio analysis to understand ground reality in operations.
4. How operational decisions affect financial results.
5. Working Capital Management
6. Pricing Decisions
7. Capital Expenditure planning decisions
8. Using Financial Analytics Metrics for KPI management
9. Using financial numbers together with operational metrics

Why choose Edplx?

• Internationally recognised accredited qualification
• Access to our free career advisors
• Approved UK Learning Centre
• 1 year accessibility to the course
• Attain PDF or hardcopy certificate to show employers
• Study at your own pace anywhere
• Employer has access to certificate validation
• Tutor Support available Monday-Friday
• Invitation to job fairs

Course Curriculum

This Course will cover some of the following topics:-

INTRODUCTION

• Financial Statement Analysis Objectives
• Financial Analysis Methods in Brief 
• Ratio Analysis 

PROFITABILITY

• Gross Profit & Operating Margin Ratios 
• Net Profit & Expense Control Ratios 
• Class Room Discussion for Some Other Expenses
• Use of Profitability Ratio to Understand Competitive Advantage and Business Models 

RETURN RATIO

• Return on Assets and Fixed Assets 
• Return on Capital Employed 
• Case Study Analysis of Three Telecom Companies 
• Cautions for Using Return Ratios on Face Value 
• Ratios Which Help to Understand How Efficiently Assets are Used 
• How We Measure Utilization of Assets not Recorded in Balance Sheet 

LIQUIDITY RATIO

• Liquidity Ratio to Understand Risk Inherent in Companies 
• Long Term Liquidity Ratios 

OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS

• Financial Analysis Measure Meant to Understand Efficiency in Other Operations 
• Summaries – Ratios Use for Operational Analysis 
• Dupont Analysis to Understand Opportunities in Optimizing Return on Equity 

DETECTING MANIPULATION

• Detecting Manipulation in Accounts – Fake Sales 
• Detecting Manipulation – Wrong Depreciation and Others 
• Pricing Decisions 
• How to Make Capex Decisions 

Who is this Course for

This course is suitable for

• Startup Founder and Co-Founders
• Business Operation Executives

Requirement

This course is open to all with no formal entry requirements.