06436 - Financial Statement Analysis

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Docente: Enrico Supino
  • Credits: 8
  • SSD: SECS-P/07
  • Language: Italian
  • Moduli: Enrico Supino (Modulo 1) Antonio De Vito (Modulo 2) Antonio De Vito (Modulo 3)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2) Traditional lectures (Modulo 3)
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Business Administration (cod. 8871)

Learning outcomes

  1. Balance sheets, Income statements and Statements of cash flows.
  2. Ratios for financial statements analysis.
  3. Cash flows analysis.

Course contents

Purposes.

- Reconciliation process and schemes.

- Profitability, liquidity, activity and debt ratios.

- Evaluation of the financial position.

- Elaboration and interpretation of the Cash Flow Statement

- The Cash Flow Statement: An Introduction

- The cash flow statement according to OIC 10 and IAS 7

- The cash flow statement according to the national accounting standards OIC and international accounting standards IAS/IFRS: Similarities and differences

- The cash flow statement according to FASB Statement 95 13

- The use of the cash flow statement for management purposes

Readings/Bibliography

 

Teaching methods

Lectures with presentations and other study material

Classroom debates

Case studies

Assessment methods

Optional oral exam for those who have obtained in the written test a score of at least 28/30 (in the absence will be recorded the vote of 28/30).  

Below is a table showing the equivalence between the grades in thirtieths and an opinion on the understanding of the subject:

  • <18 insufficient
  • 18-23 sufficient
  • 24-27good
  • 28-30 very good
  • 30 with honors excellent

Teaching tools

Book chapters, slides and other study material will be made available to students at the end of each lecture

Office hours

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See the website of Antonio De Vito