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November 1, 2022
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Description
The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms
We will apply your economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today’s business news to help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information.
Course Curriculum
- Introduction: Accounting Scandals, Business Valuation and Market Efficiency Unlimited
- The Basics of Company Valuation Unlimited
- Cash Flow Analysis: Is Cash King? Unlimited
- Using Accounting Earnings for Valuation – Why Earnings and Not Cash Flow? Unlimited
- Comparative Analysis: What Analysts Do? Unlimited
- Turbo Accounting I – A Review of How to Read a Financial Statement Unlimited
- How Companies Cook the Books Unlimited
- Detecting Earnings Management: Applied Analysis Unlimited
- Risk Assessment: Do Financial Statements Capture Risk? Unlimited
- Risk I: Cost of Capital: Is CAPM Dead? Unlimited
- Risk and Accounting Trading Strategies: Do Investors Understand Accounting? Unlimited
- Risk II: Accounting Numbers in Contracts: Ratio Analysis and Bankruptcy Detection Unlimited
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Impairment of Goodwill, Writedowns, Private Firm Valuation Unlimited
- Employee Stock Options and Valuation: Should Options be Expensed? Understanding the current debate Unlimited
- Off Balance Sheet Activities – Deconstructing the Enron Debacle and Beyond Unlimited
- Pension Plans – The Next Accounting Disaster? Unlimited
- International Financial Analysis Unlimited
- Hot Topics in Accounting and Valuation: + Capstone Unlimited
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