Course Description
The course focuses on the most salient aspects of accounting, analysis, and valuation. Students are taught to analyse, critically assess and interpret financial statement data of real companies to make informed business decisions. The course makes financial statement analysis engaging, relevant to business world and contemporary to international accounting standards. To that end, it consistently incorporates real company data and international business cases throughout teaching to reinforce the specific knowledge and skills being developed in the course.
Intended Learning Outcomes
CILO-1: Calculate, analyze critically and interpret a range of accounting ratios from the financial statements.
CILO-2: Assess and formulate independent judgments in the complex nature of financial statements.
CILO-3: Conceptualize and understand the application of financial statement analysis in real companies.
CILO-4: Evaluate and interpret financial statements from the perspective of stakeholders.
CILO-5: Synthesize and explain the usefulness and limitations of financial statement analysis.
CILO-6: Conceptualize and demonstrate an awareness of the combined use of financial statement information and non-financial statement information.