Accounting Course for New Financial Analysts

Accounting Course for New Financial Analysts

By the end of this course, you will be able to grasp the key concepts of accounting, whether you want to:

1. Upgrade your career prospects in the competitive field of finance and specifically in fields like corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, business development and M&A departments, etc.,

2. Support any of your entrepreneurship / investing endeavour or,

3. Generally become fluent in the language of business (accounting)

Even if you intend to work in an accounting department, you could build a strong foundation with this course and later on enroll in a more advanced course.

Specifically, in this course we will cover:

· What is accounting & its main categories

· We will navigate through the 3 financial statements (P&L, B/S and CF/S) and then we will explain how they are constructed and how they interlink with each other,

· Understand the various financial accounts located in each one of them, and

· Calculate the most commonly used financial ratios.

For all the above concepts, we will use real numbers to demonstrate their practical application.

For the purposes of this course, I have created a presentation with the whole material that we will cover in this course, as well as the supporting Excel file where the practical application of the various concepts will take place.

You can download both files, to follow me in the various modules of the course.

Learn the key concepts of accounting which are essential to succeed as a financial analyst.

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What you will learn

• You will be able to navigate through the financial statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement) of any company.
• You will be able to understand how these financial statements are constructed and how they interconnect with each other.
• You will be able to understand the various financial accounts within the three financial statements.

Rating: 3.5

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 1.5 hours

Instructor: Finance Step Up