Financial Analysis: Financial Ratios For Analysts

If you want to be a professional investor, analyst, or CFA, analyzing financials and calculating financial ratios is important.

After being in the finance field at the highest level for nearly 10 years, I can confidently say analyzing financial ratios is the foundation for success.

This course will teach you how to analyze over 25 different financial ratios so you can be prepared at work or managing your own investments.

Here's what you will learn:

• Margin analysis (gross margin, operating margin, net margin)

  
  

• Return on assets and equity (along with the Du Pont Formula)

  
  

• Activity Ratios (receivable turnover, DSO, inventory turnover, DSI, payable turnover, DPO, cash conversion cycle)

  
  

• Liquidity and leverage analysis (current ratio, interest coverage, debt/equity, debt/EBITDA)

  
  

• Dividend analysis (dividend yield and payout)

  
  

• Valuation (P/E, forward P/E, P/CF, P/B, P/S, EV/EBITDA)

With these financial ratios, you will be able to analyze any stock or business and tell how it is doing right away.

PLUS, the course includes a comprehensive case study that covers all of the financial ratios discussed.

We will look at real financial statements and calculate these financial ratios (just like how the professionals do it).

Finally, the course will have a comprehensive quiz at the end applying everything we have learned.