This programme intends to increase participants' understanding of the issues relating to company performance and valuation, financial positioning, and through analysis of financial statements and other important concepts in financial analysis. The programme provides participants with a set of tools to evaluate financial statements and to determine company valuation. It covers the techniques of financial statements analysis in a general business and strategic context.

Topics

• Understanding the framework for financial statements analysis
• Preparing corporate financial statements: income statement, balance sheet, cash flow
• Creative accounting - and its impact
• A framework for analysing financial statements
• Financial statements analysis in a strategic context
• Accounting analysis - checking the health of financial statements
• Techniques for financial developing and tools analysis
• Financial analysis: ratios; common size statements; cash flow analysis
• Equity valuation
• Techniques for valuing equity

Benefits

• Evaluate performance using financial analysis
• Understand how investors evaluate your organisation and shareholders
• Assess the risk/return relationship to improve business results
• Examine the value levers of the firm

Participants earn a certificate on completing the programme. This programme counts as one course for those completing the Cambridge Executive Education General Management Certificate

Why Executive Education at the University of Cambridge?

The University of Cambridge is internationally renowned for:

• outstanding faculty and excellence in teaching and research
• a collaborative learning environment and community
• commitment to innovation and its application in science, technology and business
• the Judge Business School MBA programme, which is ranked among the best in the world