Introduction to Financial Statement Analysis and Reporting
- Enseignant(s): G.Markarian
- Titre en français: Introduction à l'analyse des états et rapports financiers
- Cours donné en: anglais
- Crédits ECTS: 3 crédits
- Horaire: Semestre de printemps 2021-2022, 2.0h. de cours (moyenne hebdomadaire)
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Baccalauréat universitaire ès Sciences en économie politique
Baccalauréat universitaire ès Sciences en management
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ObjectifsThis unit is designed to prepare you to analyze, interpret, and evaluate financial statements. This course will also develop your critical thinking, problem-solving and presentation skills to assess and understand real-world situations that arises in the field of finance (such as ethical/unethical decision-making, understand M&A transaction dynamics, valuing companies and securities, etc.) The skills earned in this class will help your future careers as independent investors, fund/asset managers, bank employees, and all functions requiring the analysis of private and public companies. This course is beneficial for experienced financial statement users such as CPA/CFAs, as well as users with no accounting and finance background (beyond introductory college classes). ContenusThe course is based on weekly case studies (from Harvard Business School): after an introduction on theory of how financial statements are composed, you will learn how to understand and evaluate them through real-life case studies. The case and their analysis will deepen your knowledge of financial ratios, forecasting and valuation process based on financial statements. Furthermore, you will learn how a firm's business plan and strategy will translate into the financial statement. This unit emphasizes developing your mind to think critically and make judgments based on your technical analysis. Finally, this class will be beneficial for developing your teamwork skills. Each case shall be prepared in group before the start of the class: you will be assigned to a random group before each class and will be given the case study to read along with questions to solve, which will need to be uploaded as a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation before the start of the next class. Grading: Class attendance is mandatory. RéférencesThe course will be primarily based on materials from Harvard Business School. These Harvard case studies are not free (around 5$ per case, 60$ in total) and will need to be bought before the start of the second week of class (the details will be provided by the professor at the start of the semester). Evaluation1ère tentative
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