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BNK 205 Analyzing Financial Statements Course Objectives

After successfully completing this course, a student will be able to:

  1. Relate how a company’s type of business, legal structure, size, and management strategies affect the way a lender conducts financial analysis
  2. Analyze income statements, balance sheets, and pro-forma statements
  3. Calculate key financial ratios and use them to compare a company’s performance with that of the company’s industry
  4. Determine when a funds flow statement is required
  5. Construct and analyze long-run, multiple-year forecasts of income statements and balance sheets
  6. Construct and interpret a cash budget
  7. Use advanced analytical techniques: sensitivity analysis, sustainable growth, working investment analysis, break-even analysis, and operating leverage.