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Financial Statement Analysis
Spring 2012
Class hours: 5:00-7:50M (class 001, HH2104); 5:00-7:50W (class 002, HH2104)
Office hours: 10:00 ~ 11:00MW, mostly available Tuesdays, or by appointment
Course webpage: LEARN
COURSE OBJECTIVES, PREREQUISITES, AND COURSE FORMAT
The primary objective of this course is to help you develop the analytical skills with
which to evaluate a company’s financial performance. The valuation framework,
information quality issues, and several application-related topics will be thoroughly
analyzed. We will emphasize the role of financial statement data in valuation, using
advanced problems and cases developed from and around actual financial statements. The
material is designed for students who have little or no background in security analysis.
Students should have a good understanding of financial accounting and are interested in
learning how to apply accounting information in firm valuation and business-decision
making. An interest in finance will be helpful.
You are expected to work with Excel spreadsheets and to collect data from various
databases (available on-line or via the library source). The topics covered are intended to
complement related courses in accounting and, to some extent, in finance. The course is
beneficial for students planning careers in accounting or finance related fields. It is also
designed to be valuable to a broader set of students who wish to understand, to
distinguish among, and to appropriately implement valuation techniques and to
understand how and under what circumstances, accounting may impact the capital
markets.
Overall, the goal of this course is to help you:
1) become comfortable with using information from real financial statements,
2) develop experience in using accounting data to evaluate a firm’s current
performance and to forecast future performance,
3) master the skills to value a firm using accounting information along with other
information,
4) gain knowledge of...