72920 - FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The learning objectives for this course are: • To help students to further develop a thorough understanding of corporate external reporting practices; • To provide students an understanding of how to use financial statement information in analysing a firm’s performance and financial position; and • To help students to understand how to carry out business analysis and valuation through a comprehensive approach, in order to value the equity and debt securities of a firm.

Contenuti

• Overview of financial statement analysis.
• Financial reporting and analysis; reporting environment; nature and purpose of financial accounting; main postulates and tools.
• Cash flow analysis.
• Return on invested capital.
• Credit analysis.

Testi/Bibliografia

Gianfelici C. (2021), Financial Statement Analysis, McGraw-Hill Education, Create, ISBN: 978-13-076-9765-0

Metodi didattici

The pedagogical approach is based on a combination of lectures, exercises, discussion questions and case studies.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

Compulsory written exam. The exam is online, through Zoom and Eol. The exam is a test consisting of nos. 20 multiple-choice questions: each question includes only one right answer over four alternatives. Each right answer obtains 1.5 point, while each wrong answer gets -0.375 points. In the case a question does not receive any answer, no points are assigned or subtracted.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Book, Slides, Exercises, Case studies.

Slides, news and information related to the course and additional teaching materials will be available on the e-learning platform.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Cristina Gianfelici