Financial Performance Essentials (Includes Simulation)

Course Overview

In this course Financial Performance Essentials (Includes Simulation), you will explore the essentials of financial performance, including income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. You will also examine trends and analyses in financial performance.

Course Type

Self-paced Courses

Estimated Time of Completion

3 hours

Language

English

Objectives

This course, Financial Performance Essentials (Includes Simulation) first explains the relevance of finance for the nonfinancial manager before describing fundamental accounting conventions. In addition, this course gives the learner a thorough understanding of the three universally recognized and accepted financial reports: the income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement.

Financial Performance Essentials (Includes Simulation) also distinguishes between trend and competitive analysis and explains how the liquidity, activity, profitability, and solvency ratios are used to analyse an organisation's performance.

Topics

The Ground Rules    
·        Who Needs Finance?  
·        Keeping Track  

The Financial Statements  
·        Discover The Financial Statements  
·        Income Statement  
·        Balance Sheet  
·        Cash Flow Statement  

Evaluating Performance  
·        Measuring Up  
·        Liquidity  
·        Activity  
·        Profitability  
·        Solvency