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Blair Cook, Director of Clarke Inc
Many time CFO of both public and private companies, three current corporate director roles, CPA and Chartered Accountant. Provides professional development services to "big 4" public accounting firms.
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It takes years of real-world experience to cover the broad spectrum of skills and know-how needed to succeed as a financial analyst. This course provides a solid starting point for financial analysts wishing to build a strong foundation and for those wishing to know more about corporate financial analysis. This course begins by explaining accounting 101, packing in the best of what you need to know to understand core accounting concepts and perform common accounting transactions in one hour. Next we move on to basic finance principles and then combine all that knowledge to learn how to financially model a business using Excel.
Learning Objectives
- Describe and recognize the accounting underlying financial statements.
- Analyze business transactions to determine which are reportable, and of those, which are on account of income and which are on account of capital.
- Prepare journal entries for common business transactions.
- Post entries to create a general ledger and a trial balance using a spreadsheet.
- Prepare the income statement, the statement of changes in equity, and the balance sheet.
- Discover what financial analysis is and how it used, how to calculate present value of future streams of cash flow with various profiles. and how to calculate future value of future streams of cash flow with various profiles.
- Discover the concept of financial leverage and optimal capital structure.
- Identify where finance theory is applied in the workplace and a disciplined approach for using Excel to develop financial analysis
- Discover how to prepare financial projections of the income statement, balance sheet, and statement of cash flows
Last updated/reviewed: May 16, 2022
29 Reviews (131 ratings)Reviews
Jennifer Wergland Lyon
( at N/A)
I found this to be an excellent overview of finance principles for someone who is an accountant rather than a finance person. The modeling section was extremely helpful as well. The instructor was interesting and I highly recommend this course.
Charles Jones
(Sr. Financial Controlling Manager at Alpla, Inc.)
Very practical module, accurate to real-world considerations and practices and not just theoretical ideals that don't actually happen in reality as some courses tend to do. This one matches what I've seen over the course of my career. Being a short course of only 4.5 hours, the depth is not that intense, and if you already have an accounting background then the accounting primer/review might be worth skipping because you'll ace that portion of the exam. When it says "Accounting 101", it literally means 101 -- the stuff I covered in my very first accounting course and nothing more. Overall, a good course for those looking for some practical guidance on how to do basic finance and how to go about modeling a business.
Anonymous
(Mgr, Accounting/Reporting, Internal Repo..)
There was a lot of information. I would recommend taking this in separate parts. A couple of the exam questions, did not follow the reading. The slides said one thing but the correct answer was different. Also there was a question, where the slides said you should use a separate tab but that wasn't even a choice. The choices were use a separate cell or a different file, for an Excel user these are 3 different things.
David Lopez-Monroy
(Self at Self)
Very knowledgeable instructor, provides good insight on financial modeling. A great feature of this course is that they provided excel templates that can be followed throughout the course and used afterwards for training. What I did not like is that the test is too technical for the material covered. This is meant for non-accountants and the level of questions seems very high for such a short course.
Xin Yue Gu
(Accountant at Google)
What I liked:
This course offers a very comprehensive review of both accounting, financial analysis, and finance concepts. It gave me a good refresher on the accounting fundamentals, as well as taught me how to set up templates for financial forecasts (which is very useful). The review on debt vs equity financing is also helpful.
Anonymous
(CFO)
The accounting section is pretty basic/elementary. The finance principles sections was a good refresher. And I'm actually saving the financial modeling section as a reference for when I think about the most important things to share with new/junior analysts.
Jay Yen
(Revenue Accountant at Google)
As an accounting professional, I appreciated refreshing myself of the perspective and principles on the corporate finance and finance side. I appreciated the instructor's clear and straightforward explanations.
Anonymous
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Great course that provides a good overview of financial accounting and modeling, but does not go incredibly in-depth. Good refresher or beginner course. However, course materials are thorough and are a bonus!
Anonymous
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Sometimes financial analysis is a little hard for me, so after taking the course I hava more concepts to calcaulate the ratio and do more efficient financial analysis！Thanks Mr.Blair's great work!
Cindy Callahan
(Controller at Innovance, Inc.)
Accounting 101 was basic knowledge and easily understood. The next two series of classes had the pace at a much higher level. Would have liked to have those two pieces slowed down a bit.
Anonymous
(Managing Director & Consulting C..)
Illumeo... Would be great after completing the course if we could see the correct answers. I missed a few, and want to know which were wrong and what the correct answers were.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
A good combination - some review, some new information, some good tips and a good example for how to set up forecasted financial statements. I enjoyed the class.
Anonymous
(Manager Internal Audit Europe)
Great refreshing course for every finance professional on financial analysis. I particularly liked the financial modeling using Excel part of the course.
Anonymous
(Accountant)
A great refresher for an accountant trying to learn more about general processes. Teacher was clear and concise with delivery of information.
James Munson
(Senior Accountant at Google)
Great length based on the amount of detail covered in the course. Helpful summary information. The practice quiz was good preparation.
Doug Slaybaugh
( at The CPA Coach)
Great perspective and principle focus on finance, balanced with accounting. Appreciated the course for its insight into modeling.
Anonymous
(None)
This is a great course to introduce you to basic concepts of financial analysis's along with helpful hints to use with excel.
Jeff Bone
(Financial Advisor at Northwestern Mutual)
Content was fine but the questions in the exam did not correlate very well to the content. Was a good refresher though.
David Morris
(CFO at Armstrong Transport)
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Ricardo De Alba
(Controller at Harvest Church)
Excellent overview of each topic, providing a great refresher on Finance and Financial Modeling for CPAs.
Anonymous
(Director Finance)
Interesting twist for basic accounting to forecast modeling all in one course, but tied together nicely.
Anonymous
(Wealth Strategist)
Great information! Blair does a great job keeping things entertaining, efficient, and engaging!
Anonymous
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I liked the effort it took to pass this course. I hope to see more loike it in the future
Anonymous
(Finance and Accounting Consultant)
Engaging course with well organized sections and excellent content for each topic covered.
Anonymous
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The excel materials are very useful to help follow the case study.
Anonymous
(CFO)
The course was very informative and relevant to the topic at hand.
Anonymous
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Great review course for me. Well presented and well structured.
Anonymous
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very good course, good mix of technical, accounting, finance
Anonymous
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Good overview and content. Thank you for the reminders.
Prerequisites
Course Complexity: Foundational
No advanced preparation or prerequisites are required for this course
Education Provider Information
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Illumeo, Inc., 75 East Santa Clara St., Suite 1215, San Jose, CA 95113
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