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Analyzing a Corporate Annual Report
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Title: Analyzing a Corporate Annual Report

Course ID: AACDPCAR
CPE HRs: 4.5

Format: PDF 

 

Author: Dr. Jae Shim

 

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Price: $38.50 

Course Description 

This course focuses on an analysis of the corporate annual report. It help you interpret and understand its components, including the financial statements, footnotes, review of operations, auditor's report, supplementary schedules,  management discussion and analysis (MD&A), and  Management’s Report On Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. It touches upon how the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 reporting differs from traditional reporting.  The course also teaches you how to perform financial ratio and cash flow analyses.

 

Delivery: Internet/Interactive

 

NASBA Category: Accounting
 
 Learning Objective

 CHAPTER 1 -Annual Report: Its Components

Learning objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

  • Read and interpret the basic financial statements: the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows.
  • Explain how the balance sheet portrays a company's financial po­sition.
  • Describe how the income statement reveals the entity's operating per­formance .
  • Determine and assess a company's cash inflows and cash outflows.
  • Describe the many types of accounts that may exist in the accounting system.
  • Explain what the annual report is and read and understand its components, including the financial statements, footnotes, review of operations, auditor's report, and supplementary sched­ules.
  • Define what management’s discussion and analysis (MD&A) involves.
  • State how the Sarbanes-Oxley 404 reporting differs from traditional reporting.

CHAPTER 2 -Analysis of Financial Statements

 

Learning objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

 

  • Explain what financial statement analysis is and why it is important.
  • Compare horizontal analysis and vertical analysis.
  • List the basic components of ratio analysis.
  • Distinguish between trend analysis and industry comparison.
  • Calculate a comprehensive set of financial ratios and interpret them.
  • Explain the limitations of ratio analysis.

 

Level: Basic


Prerequisites: None

 

Reviewed/Updated: 2009

 
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Price:$38.50
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