Financial Reporting and Analysis

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students are expected to be able describe details of financial statements; to describe advantages and disadvantages the seminal studies in the Market-based Accounting Research (MBAR); to apply and compare several financial statement analysis approaches using real cases; to perform several financial statement analysis approaches using common electronic spreadsheet; to perform different financial statement analyses for different types of investors; and to provide investment recommendation to different types of investors

Topics

1. Company’s financial statements are among the primary source of information for the equity analysts to analyze the financial position and health of the company
2. This course is designed to introduce in-depth analyses of financial statements as foundations to develop equity investment recommendations
3. Topics covered in this course include analyses of balance sheet elements, analyses of business combinations and multinational business, as well as, the role of those analyses on the equity valuation and forecasting
4. Students are expected to actively share their field study’s weekly progress in class