Book Description
This open book is a dynamic guide incorporating the essential skills needed to build a foundation in Financial Analysis. Students and readers will learn how to insightfully read a Financial Statement, utilize key financial ratios in order to derive forward-looking investment-related inferences from the accounting data, engage in elementary forecasting and modeling, master the theory of the Time Value of Money, and learn to price stocks and bonds in an environment in which interest rates constantly change. Ample problems and solutions, and review questions are provided to the student so that s/he can gauge his/her progress.
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Table of Contents
Part I
Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis, and Forecasting
Chapter 1
Introduction
Chapter 2
Financial Statement Analysis: The Balance Sheet
Chapter 3
Financial Statements Analysis: The Income Statement
Chapter 4
Financial Statements and Finance
Part II
Ratio Analysis and Forecasting Modeling
Chapter 5
Financial Ratios and Forecasting; Liquidity and Solvency Ratios
Chapter 6
Profitability and Return Ratios, and Turnover
Chapter 7
Market Ratios
Chapter 8
Cash Flow, Depreciation, and Financial Projections
Chapter 9
Corporate Forecasting Models
Part III
The Time Value of Money
Chapter 10
The Time Value of Money: Simple Present- and Future-Values
Chapter 11
The Time Value of Money: Annuities, Perpetuities, and Mortgages
Part IV
Interest Rates, Valuation, and Return
Chapter 12
Fixed Income Valuation
Chapter 13
Interest Rates
Chapter 14
Equity Valuation and Return Measurement