Reading Financial Statements

Overview

Reading Financial Statements Course

Learn how to read financial statements. In this 2-part free course, we use a company's financial statements and annual report to understand the financial strength of a company and help us make informed decisions.

Reading & Understanding the Balance Sheet

In this first module, we learn how to read the balance sheet and its related notes using a company case study, Espresso Software. This will help us understand the financial strength of the company and help us make informed decisions. By the end of this module, you will have a solid understanding of the specific accounts in a typical balance sheet and the related notes to the financial statements.

Navigate successfully through the notes to the financial statements.
Read and interpret the various items in a published balance sheet.
Understand complex balance sheet concepts (e.g. deferred taxes, goodwill, investments, etc.)

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Reading & Understanding the Income Statement and Cash Flow

In this second module of this free course, we continue reading Espresso Software's financial statements. We look at the company's income statement and statement of cash flows and conclude by covering the key contents of an annual report. By the end of this module, you will have a solid understanding of a typical income statement, statement of cash flows and annual report.

Understand the different ways to present an income statement and cash flow statement.
Read and interpret the various items in a published income statement.
Identify the operating, financing, and investing activities of a company.
Determine what is contained in an annual report and where to find it.

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More About this Free Financial Statements Course

This accounting course is highly interactive with many different applied exercises and case studies. Sophisticated search and navigation tools allow you to go at your own pace while pop quizzes test what you have learned. The reading financial statements course also includes two PDF reference guides – a financial statements glossary and an accounting factsheet. These can be used while taking the course and downloaded to your computer for future reference.

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What You'll Learn

Lesson

Multimedia

Exams

Files

Introduction

Course introduction

Downloadable files

Understanding the Balance Sheet

Session objectives

Three key financial statements

Balance sheet

Income statement

Statement of cash flows

Simplified balance sheet

Current vs non-current

Interactive exercise 1

Espresso Software balance sheet demonstration

Investments

Deferred income taxes

Interactive exercise 2

Common vs preferred shares

Authorized vs outstanding share capital

Contributed surplus

Other comprehensive income

Interactive exercise 3

Balance sheet component matching exercise

Statement of shareholders' equity

The full disclosure principle

Three key financial statement notes

Significant accounting policies

Direct information

Indirect information

Interactive exercise 4

Noteworthy exercise

Understanding the Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement

Session objectives

The three key financial statements

The income statement

Single step vs multi-step income statement

Cost of sales

Selling, general and administration

Gains and losses

Interactive exercise 5

Espresso Software income statement exercise

The cash flow statement

The cash flow activities

Operating activities

Investing activities

Financing activities

Direct method vs indirect method

Direct method

Indirect method

Key elements in a cash flow statement

Interactive exercise 6

Espresso Software cash flow statement exercise

The benefits of an annual report

Contents of an annual report

Management discussion and analysis

Expresso Software reporting challenge exercise

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Students must complete all core and elective courses (14 in total) and demonstrate mastery of the topics through successful completion of course materials, quizzes, and assessments.

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The course on reading financial statements feels like I am taking a refresher course in Accounting. It discusses about the basics of Financial Statements while giving an in depth understanding of an actual annual report and F/S. It has satisfactorily targeted the topics that are mostly critical and valuable in a real business situation. I am already excited to move on to my next course.

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Very Helpful

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Good

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I think this course is a good course foe accounting student

Reema Almukhlifi

I have refreshed my memory on the basics of accounting and been introduced to new components and information that helped me to understand the financial statements better. However, some of the case studies questions were not cleared and needed more explanation which i could not ask for. Otherwise, it is a great course I highly recommend it.

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i really had a great time studying this topic with CFI. The course objectives, notes and exercises where very engaging, interesting and passionating. thanks to this course and the good explanations from the lecturer I understand better what it means to actually read financial statements and I can easily read them now. Thanks, CFI. I look forward to taking more courses with you.

Daniel Orefuwa

The explanation of the deferred tax was Apt. Thank you

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I am fortunate to attend such informative and knowledgeable course provided by CFI it help to understand Financial statement of any Company very well and analyse deeply. Thanks

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I would definitely recommend to opt this course!

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Beginners' Guide to Financial Statement. This course will help you to read Balance Sheets, Income Statements, Cash Flow Statements in a small period of time. Very informative and great way to use you time for your own benefit.

Manchester Macgyver

Amazing content, it was totally worth my time and a little refresher wouldn't hurt. I will strongly recommend this to anyone who has no, to a little knowledge on accounting and finance.

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I'm glad to take this course, it really helps and sincerely its impactful.

ABDULLA Al MAHMUD

Satisfied.

Rajeev Chowdhry

A very helpful and informative course that give a high level overview of the complex financial statements issued by major listed companies. It covers all the fundamentals required to read financials and also very good tests to help understand how and where to look for information on Annual Reports which include the Financial Statements.

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Very insightful

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Its after this course that I really took the time and the knowledge to read my Company's Annual Financial Reports to my satisfaction.

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Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity to acquire the basic knowledge in Accounting

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...Work well done,precision was key to delivery.

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Having a basic knowledge gives you a good grasp of the content and gives more insights of how financial statements work.

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They are just awsome. A huge chunk divided into portion with detailed explanation, highly recommended.

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A course designed to give an overview of the components in a financial statements for beginners. The exercises attached is useful

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Perfect instructor and contents

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Good material and add insight

Fady Fathy

The course content is too very simple. Also too many little exercises in comparison to the 1st course.

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It was a nice learning

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Kishore Srinivasan

Basics neatly explained! Kudos to CFI team

Balaji R

Please include more examples to understand the financial statements concepts

CA Priya Chaturvedi

A beneficial course to gain understanding of Financial Statements.

SHAHID JAMAL KHAN

get well knowledge and clear concept after doing that course excellent

CA Israil Ansari

Elaborated Course

Ricardo Samatelo Fernandez

This was my first free virtual financial course, and even than the concepts were well known for me, the methodology and sequence made me feel comfortable and involved from the beginning until the end; the examples and explanations well chosen.

Naresh Bambhaniya

Again thanks for sharing

Emad Alotainan

you have the option of instantly streaming the video. amazing series of lectures .

Olivia Li

This course provides an easy way of explaining what financial statements are consist of and the detailed items that can be included. Both videos and exercises are quick and interactive.

raju singh

this course is refreshing for me and very knowledgable

kunal Solanki

good

CA CISA(Certified) Pankaj Kumar Choudhary

Very good course for beginners and nice refresher for working professionals.

Lakshmiraj Muniraj

I was very much happy to start the course as I had got to learn many things from other courses from the Bundle. once after I started the course I was very much disappointed, the first reason being the instructor is very fast, where had to play the video 'n' number of times to listen and understand. second of all the course content, materials could have been much better. I have rated 2 stars for the effort, but not happy with the overall content. though it is not must try for FMVA professional, but I assume one must know to read the financial statements no matter what.

saikat chandra Debnath

I am very happy to complete course

Muhammad Azim

A very simple way to explain how to read a complicated public company financial statements. Thank you.

Diwakar R

I am studying financial course first time. Its useful

Jim Howard

I got a lot out of the course. My only criticism is that when I took the course the second time the segments advanced without my selecting them as I was working my way through the module. Is there a way to take the courses multiple times without having to change the check box for each segment to to reflect that it hasn't been taken?

Leena Palav

The text slide disappears too quickly once the audio is completed. There is no time to read and absorb. It can stay until the reader presses next. There is no value to keep going back to the screen with the list of the 60 different videos per chapter in order to press Next. The whole chapter can be just one sequence. Also your software does not work with Microsoft Edge

I Wayan Subagia

No Need to review because Easy to understand.

Gerald Mulongosha

It has given me a good insight in beginning the accounts course, I hope to take more lessons.

Nam Nguyen

Overall a very good pre-requisite and foundation course, however sections such as Deferred tax income could've been explained more thoroughly in terms of material flow and clear distinction between time/temporary difference and permanent difference to enhance comprehensibility.

Elaine Tor

Can't seem to link the answers properly. Got it right however due to system error, can't detect the puzzle to the correct answer.

WEALTH FRANCIS EFFIONG

During my MBA program, certain aspects were not clearly understood, which gave me less confidence & after much research, I came across CFI and I sincerely commend the Institute for coming up with a well defined method to reading and understanding the financial statements. The course content is outstanding and thoroughly planned with unique explanations and tests. The platform is easy to use & navigate, which makes learning interesting. My confidence has greatly increased in this areas and all thanks to Corporate Finance Institute. I recommend CFI to anyone who wants to build a career in finance. Great job CFI.

Nadjib Cherif

Thank you very much instructor and Corporate finance institute for this Course.

Anjoo Navalkar

A most recommended course on significance of Financial statements in a nutshell for non-finance professionals. Wonderful exercises and expalnation of key concepts.

Jacinta Njuguna

The course is very informative, I learnt a lot and the descriptions are very easy to understand.

Ayush Mangal

Good Overall

Bello, Olalekan Asodiq

This course has been an amazing and inspiring course to me because it has tremendously added value to my knowledge and make me gain confidence as regards reading, preparation and presentation of financial statements.

George Cracan

Excellent information, excellent documentation, excellent explanations for a beginner like me !

Syed Khurram Haider

EXCELLENT COURSE

Pha Pha Nguyen Ngoc

It is such a nice course to update my knowledge!!!

Ali Zahoor

Its is best for improve the skills, easy to understand. Great team work of CFI Regards Ali Zahoor

JOSEPH KIOKO

Very articulate and elaborate. Job well done by the instructors.

AIDA SHEROLLI

The course was very useful for me. It is well organized and gives u a lot of information regarding the financial statements.

Rizwan Karim

I would to thanks team CFI for providing such a great platform for Finance professionals to grow and take the next career step. I am very much satisfied with CFI's efforts.

Andriette le Grange

This course guides you where to look for information and how information can be used to make various decisions.

RAISA SALIM

good

CHRISTOS SEITANIDIS

Excellent! All the best! God bless!

Dr. Melina Reisenberg

I don't have a finance background, however work in a position requiring financial knowledge. I hoped this course would help me to really get my head around the ins and outs of financial statements...ant it simply hasn't. It gives an ok overview and can be seen as a starting point.

James Gwan

Speaks too fast and needs to explain in more detail! These are not not well prepared lectures at all!

James Rwagasana

I recommend any one to take this course.

Lúcio Carlos de Pinho Filho

It is an excellent course!

syed haider zaidi

A good course for Revision.

Bhushan Pathak

For anyone who does or does not know basics of a business financial statements, it is productive.

Marco Pelser

Very well layed out. Of course, when doing accounting the expense accounts for large companies can often be quite intricate. Having this understanding is so crucial to grasping how direct and indirect costs are allocated. There are so many things to note, and the basics are important. This course definitely takes the cake of all previous courses I've painfully endured. It's true that I have a lot of accounting working experience, but still believe that doing courses like these help refresh the mind and would be highly beneficial to anyone wanting a real-world understanding. Well done! It was simply great fun, and not without challenge, which is what I like. It requires work, and all adds up as you progress.

Christopher Pellicano

Excellent. Must take even though only a prerequisite.

Mariya Eldhose

YASH PALIWAL

Thank you CFI, this proves good learning platform for me.

John Adair

Finally, I understand the different parts of the 3 Key financial statements, and the notes of a company's financial report. Thank you. I highly recommend this course.

Jose Hernandez

It's extremely annoying that every bit is divided into 1-2 minute videos when they could be combined into a single one to cover related topics

OTIM DAVID

Not mention, Ireffer every to read and listen to these website

Natasha Gunn

Really enjoying the course. Information is presented in a clear and logical way. Resources are of high quality. Thanks for making this!

ANAND KHATWANI

this is a very good course to learn

wilfred agyei

The course content is great. However, the instructor was speeding which makes it difficult to follow through. The speed 0.5x is extremely slow while that of 1x is also really fast. Therefore I suggest you include a speed of 0.75x as well. Thanks

Camila Thais Higa Lopes

In this course you can review the basics! Very well done.

Maggie Lee

excellent course

Tushar Dev

I really appreciate to team CFI for making this course. I acquired so much of knowledge regarding Balance sheet and other financial statements. Thank you so much.

DEBOPAM GUHA

EXCELLENT CONTENT. MAYBE NEED A FEW MORE REAL LIFE EXAMPLES TO GET THE CANDIDATE MORE EXCITED

Aaron Christian

Very good course. Please cover annual report a bit more in detail if possible. The financial statements were explained very well. Thank You

ADARAMOYE FAITH

its a nice course.

Ankita Shirodkar

I have started with this course as I believe this would help in adding value to my resume. The course is very simplified and the inclusion of exercises helps a lot. Thank you

ali faramarzi

tnx cfi it was excellent

Mubarak Nasser Al Mansoori

Its amazing course

Balidir Ganerdene

good

Nay Zaw Soe

It is beneficial course to finance learners . I am on cloud nine to join CFI.

Saqib Siraj

Greetings! Good Day Awesome experience after having the certification. Regards, Saqib

Hart Chukwuemeka

The course was well presented and very explanatory, I will recommend that every student studying Accounting to take this course

Brenden K

Excellent 2-3 hour crash course over the basics of financial statements that companies issue and how to understand and interpret them. Well worth going over the material for a refresher on foundational material related to the financial analyst or business analyst job title. Does an excellent job at reviewing the annual report and what it includes.

Nkosingiphile Langa

This course is extremely beneficial, educating and fun altogether.

Kareem Salawudeen

it is key to understand that there are other information aside financial statements that helps in a full analysis of a company's performance

Mohamad Azhar Hashim

The course is really fantastic. The instructors presented the course in a simple yet effective manner.

Hamdy Ahmed Ahmed Mohamed

very useful information

Leon Petersen

Course was good, but assessment coursed confusion, for example unearned revenue can also be a non-current liability, particularly when projects/contracts are multi-year and/or when projects are delayed even though cash was received up front. The question was too vague and I thought there were 2 correct answers.

Abhishek Arora

It is fine. I love it. This course is absolutely fine.

Bikram Shah

Whatever is presenting over there, it was fantastic. It helps me a lot to recall about these financial statements.

Rebecca Benjamin

This course was very helpful to me and could get a certificate without any hassle. Recommended to all.

Diego Ríos Herrerías

I searched everywhere for the "Espresso's Annual Results Letter"; however, it didn't come as an attached file in the exercise nor it appeared in the Downloadable Files section for the current lesson.

Ayobami Olarinde

This course is very insightful.

ALOK KUMAR PANDEY

COURSE IS BEAUTIFULLY DESIGNED AND USER INTERFACE IS VERY EASY. GREAT JOB DONE BY THE CFI TEAM. FOUND THIS COURSE VERY USEFUL AND PRACTICAL. ONE MUST GO THROUGH THE COURSE IF INTERESTED IN A COMPANY FINANCE SYSTEM. THANK YOU

John Kombo

very good and enlighting but you should give more notes in pdf

collins osobase

Excellent

chintakayala Raviteja

it is such a great place to expose a students knowledge

JANA VODVARKOVA

GOOD PIECE!

rohit ladda

All the basics covered !...with perfect explaination!

OLUWAFEMI SOJI DANIEL

Great explanations

Dhananjay Kutwal

Very nice and detailed explanation

Ottice Sibiya

Informative program and well presented... Love it!

Rabikant Pandey

I found it so interesting and innovative .really I loved it

Rohit Raj

Good.

Patrick Irurhe

please help me because the course did not open

Ahmed Gamal Eldin Mohamed .

GOOD

Anne St. Clair

After having "Accounting Fundamentals", which was incredibly thorough and informative, this course is a real let-down. The slides from the presentation don't match the pdf-slides from the downloads and a lot of the explanations provided are insufficient. For example, the difference between authorized versus outstanding shares is written confusingly - on the slides it says that "Authorized shares are the total number of all shares that a company has to sell". What is meant by "has to sell"? Are businesses required to sell a certain amount? Looking this up on Google seems to provide a better explanation for this particular question, where multiple pages specify that Authorized Stock/Shares are the max number of shares that a business is legally ALLOWED to issue, not "has to" issue. The presentation of this class/course should be reviewed and adding a few more sentences onto the slides will help learners make sense of the material even after this class.

Md . Mokbul Hossain

very cheap and bad

KANNY SIBOZA

i'm happy thanks

karthikeyan k

Shafici Abdullahi Hirsi

I'm happy to be apart of this amazing course. I just wanna say thank you guys for giving us this amazing opportunity. Now I understand how to read financial statements.

Steven Kayitare

It is awesome I have mastered in these now.

Davide Carisi, MBA

I think that is a tough course, but at the same time it is very interesting.

Moses Abraham

I enjoyed every bit of it and i will take more courses under you programme

Paul D Stewart

Very high level introduction to Financial statements in US GAAP. Most of context is transferrable to IFRS international standards as the framework is very high level.

Tushar Khandare

Hi, This course help me to enhance my knowledge and covered good contents. Thank you...

Nishitha Vemuri

This course helped me to quickly brush up my knowledge on Financial statements. It would have been more useful if the explanation is related to schedule III statements.

OM PARKASH UPADHAYAY

This online course is very inspiration for professional who are in remote areas. it provide us very familiar refreshment knowledge for certification.

ngoni simon maiwasha

The course was so educative. It is more than a bachelor's degree covered within a short period of time. The lecturers explained the concepts clearly. The course material is related the course. Your course is excellent. My understanding of financial statements improved greatly.

Tumwine Micheal

CFI you really doing a great service because your videos are so precious to the point and really understood the necessary information that was disturbing in really life

ibrahim abdirahman

This course has opened my eyes and i would to like to further my knowledge on accounting and finance to the next level with corporate finance institute. And let me say to corporate finance institute thank you. However, my rate to this course is very satisfying.

Taimur Zulfiqar

Excellent course on reading financial statements at a beginners level.......well presented.

Danna Hunter

This course has open up my eyes in reading financial statements. It gave me a more advanced idea of what belongs within the THREE top financial statements. Thanks CFI!!!!

Dave Runyan

I thought this was a reasonably good overview of Financial Statements and material to understand an Annual Report. The youtube portion was, I thought, was thoughtfully and succinctly put together.

Dennis Amponsah Baidoo

Great

Karan Bhadane

superb course , thank's for their initiative of such free online course

Omotayo Habeeb

The course is really an eye-opener, educative and very interesting. I really gained and learned a lot. Thanks to the CFI team for this great opportunity to refresh my brain!!!!!

Fernando Marquez

I liked the course. It is essential for Financial Annalists. I would add some more exercises to strengthen the most challenging concepts to make sure the basic is really solid to move forward. Thanks for the chance to access to such a good experience.

Aicen Auman

These videos are so informative.

Anwar Khan

It's really very helpful. The way of teaching is perfect and easy to understand. Thanks to you and your team k

Sulabh Chokhani

Text was good. Testability should be more stringent.

VINCENT TETTEH PERRY

THE PRESENTATION OF THE COURSE MATERIALS IS SUPERB.

Severin Haemmerl

Great overview and nice examples using real-world financial statements. Only the solutions of the exercises could be explained in more detail.

Matthew Johnson

Helpful in explaining the basic components of financial statements. Downloadable resources are very helpful.

Javed Ahmed

I really appreciate the work your team has done. The way of teaching is perfect and understandable to a prudent minded person. Stay blessed the team of CFI. Profound Regards, Javed Ahmed

Alexander Korkor

It is very necessary to read Financial Statements. Financial Statement help managers make good decisions for a business/corporate institution, the stipulate the flow of cash, the value of assets, business income, and the development aspects of a corporation/business entity. Financial Statement reading is also advised for a manager as to how to run day-to-day expenditures and how to minimize losses and increase the owner's capital.

Teka Derick Tikum

This course brings you familiar with finance and accountIng terms and transactions in Financial Statements and how to interpret them. Was of great help during my studies. Thanks CFI

Prem Shrestha

The course is quite simple. It is very useful for beginners. In reality, we have to deal with much more complicated financial statements. It could be useful for practicing individuals to have complicated examples as well.

tin aung

Great course!!

Kajal Poddar

Good !

Bienvenido Jesus B. Castro Jr., CPA, FMVA

Very helpful & informative, the method is very simple but it works well !!

peter kimera

This course has been of great value to me and it has enabled me to acquire more knowledge

Dr.Vijaya Venkateswari Krishnasamy

The Course was interesting and informative

Faysal Hossain

It is great to get such experience and helps

Przemyslaw Janus

If possible there could be a reference to the statement of changes in equity (as part of FS) and perhaps a short note on IFRS / US GAAP and main differences in treatment.

Edwin Wangila

Great

Richard Hastings

Cuts to the meat of the matter, and expresses financial statements in logical and sensible formats. Understands need for not going in to too much detail.

Elie Haddad

This course is so informative !

Swan Aung

Reading Financial Statements is very useful for those who are working in both the banking industry and business sectors.

Chris Wang

This course is a great overview of the basics and is easy to follow. It was well paced , although I repeated several of the chapters which was easy thanks to the good interface. All in all a very solid course.

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