FIN 468 Advanced Financial Analysis

3 Credit(s)

This course introduces financial statement analysis from the company managers’, lenders’, and stock investors’ points of view, and covers issues such as revenue recognition, earnings quality, ratio analysis, financial modeling, bankruptcy predictions, and firm valuation using discounted cash flow techniques. Recognition and appreciation of messages, biases, and limitations of financial statements are discussed, while common size statements and trend analysis are done using spreadsheet software. Required of Business Majors; Corporate Finance-Concentration; Elective limited to Finance and ODS concentrations. Prerequisite: FIN 309 or FIN409.