Welcome to Financial Statement Analysis
Please note that this course in Period A 2022, September 6 till October 12, is taking place in person, on campus.
After successfully completing the course, you will have the knowledge and skills needed to analyze financial statements in various decision-making situations. In particular, you will be able to analyze financial statements in order to evaluate
You will, moreover, be familiar with how valuation models are used when preparing IFRS financial statements, and how accounting for corporate social responsibility becomes more and more important in preparing financial reports. Most of all, you will not be fooled as easily by those kinds of folks:
The course will be delivered offline - that means, we meet face-to-face on campus. The group-assignments can, of course, be done asynchronously. The exam will take place on campus, too.
The course content consists of materials published in the MyCourses sections (i.e., modules) and what is discussed during the lectures. The content is partly based on the course book (Petersen, T & Plenborg, C. Financial Statement Analysis: Valuation - Credit Analysis - Executive Compensation. Prentice Hall.). Relevant scientific articles will be provided through MyCourses, too.
Please use this forum to discuss any matters related to the course content. Give your post/thread a topic-name (e.g., "Module 3 - Question about cost of capital calculation") so that your peers know immediately what this is about.
We encourage you to first answer each other before we step in and help. However, we do observe the discussions, too, and engage when we see that our help is needed or you specifically ask for it.
Please make sure you answer to the question in the respective thread. This makes it easier for everyone to go back later and check the answers.File#0 Syllabus File PDF document
Lecture slides for the first session: syllabus