Advanced financial statement analysis - F000694
Specific course requirements
To participate in the course “Advanced Financial Statement Analysis” the following is required:
- a good command of the English language,
- a profound knowledge of the principles of double bookkeeping, of the structure and content of a balance sheet and income statement and of ratio and cash flow analysis.
One of the main goals of het course is to develop your skills to critically analyse a set of IFRS financial statements in order to value and assess the creditworthiness of a company.
In particular, the following teaching methods are used:
Guided self-study and lectures: the combination of both will give you the basic theoretical knowledge. In particular, you are expected to read some of the course material and complete questions on that material (see the document “Class preparation questions” in the folder “Documents” on Minerva, www.minerva.ugent.be) before each lecture. During the lectures, your answers on those questions will be used to further explain and deepen your understanding of and insight in the theory. During the lectures, active participation is required. The first lecture is mandatory otherwise your access to the course will be denied!
- Seminars: will help you to develop your skills to critically analyze and use the results of this analysis to value and assess the creditworthiness of a company. During these seminars, you will present and discuss your answers on exercises and parts of a project which you prepared in groups (cf. infra).
- A project: will help you to further develop your skills to critically analyze and use the results of this analysis for company valuation and for assessment of a company’s creditworthiness. This project is a group assignment.
- Register on Ufora in the week before the start of the academic year. If you fail to do so, you will not be assigned to a group for assignments, including the project.
- Before the first lecture:
- Obtain the textbook. You will immediately need the book to prepare an assignment for the next day: “Palepu, Healy, & Peek (2016). Business Analysis & Valuation. IFRS edition. Text and cases. Fourth edition. Cengage Learning EMEA, Andover, Hampshire, UK” . You can buy the book on Campus Tweekerken. You can find more info on the book sale on the following website: http://www.vek.be/en/studeer/1213/boekenverkoop)
- Check to which group you were assigned (see Ufora)
- Be present and actively participate in the lectures and seminars
- Regularly check the announcements on Ufora
General course specifications
Consult the general specifications of this course in the exchange programme in economics and business admin.