This course will provide students with an in-depth understanding of the format and reporting limitations of an organization's financial statements and how this information can be analyzed using financial ratios and other measures to determine a firm's liquidity, efficiency, solvency and profitability. Financial statements will be analyzed primarily from the perspective of a company's financial manager, but the specific techniques used by stock analysts, lenders, bond rating agencies, and merger and acquisition specialists will also be explored. Case studies will be used extensively to reinforce course concepts.
Corequisite: BBUS 312