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Garland Granger, Instructor
Garland is president of Professional Accounting Seminars, Inc., and has been teaching seminars professionally for more than 20 years. His primary focus is financial accounting issues, fraud, and internal controls.
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In this course you will learn the primary purpose of financial statement analysis, including examinig financial statements through the lens of an analyst who does not prepare the statements. You will also learn the premise upon which analysis can occur.
You will be introduced to the basic tools of analysis from a conceptual standpoint, including how to identify anomalies that appear during analysis, how to calculate and interpret ratios related to financial statements accounts, and how to combine certain related ratios in order to better understand the financial issues facing any company.
Then we will apply these tools in a practice, problem-solving case.
Learning Objectives
- You will learn the primary purpose of financial statement analysis.
- You will examine financial statements through the lens of an analyst who does not prepare the statements.
- You will learn the premise upon which analysis can occur.
- You will be introduced to the basic tools of analysis from a conceptual standpoint.
- You will learn how to identify anomalies that appear during analysis.
- You will learn the how to calculate and interpret ratios related to financial statements accounts.
- You will learn how to combine certain related ratios in order to better understand the financial issues facing any company.
- You will learn how to apply these tools in a practice problem-solving case.
Last updated/reviewed: June 13, 2021
10 Reviews (24 ratings)Reviews
Anonymous
(Director - Data Analytics, Sales and Pri..)
This was an enjoyable refresher course to listen to. I appreciated the teacher brought real life examples to the lecture as it made it easier for some of the topics to resonate with me.
Will Nystrom
( at BMC Investments/BLDG Management)
The instructor did a good job of teaching the importance of financial statement analysis as well as its practicality use in day to day business.
Cheryl Husmann
( at Smiling Aviation, Inc.)
As always I’ve learned a new way to use analysis from this instructor. It’s delivered in a way that is both useful & easy to listen to.
Anonymous
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Thanks for giving me a full review of the ratio calculations. The course is very helpful for my routine work!
Anonymous
(Functional Analyst)
it was a good course but I would have liked a lot more documentation in the course material.
Anonymous
(Sr Financial Reporting Analyst)
Great course. used a lot of stories to relate the information and keep things interesting.
Anonymous
(Tax Consultant)
Enjoyed taking this course. Looking forward to taking others from this instructor.
Rahman Ullah
(Senior Accountant at Cardtronics)
Great course!Love this country professor! Will look for more.
Anonymous
(Director Finance)
Great refresher on analytical tools for financial analysis.
Anonymous
(VP, Finance)
Fantastic presenter. This course makes you think.
Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Intermediate
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course.
Education Provider Information
Company:
Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
Contact:
For more information regarding this course, including complaint and cancellation policies, please contact our offices at (408) 400- 3993 or send an e-mail to .