Course Objective
This course for MFIs will provide participants with an analytical framework and practical tools to analyze and exploit information about profitability and risk in financial statements.
Financial Statement Information:
Enhance your understanding of the accounting information contained in company annual reports
(balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flows, and related footnotes and disclosures). This section provides the foundation of financial statement analysis and valuation. We will examine the many value relevant pieces of information that financial statements contain, as well as the accounting choices managers make in light of their business strategy, contractual constraints and incentives, and GAAP.
Analysis:
Deepen your ability to analyze how financial statement information captures and reflects the critical factors of risk and success in the competitive environment and strategy of firms. Here we will introduce you to a variety of advanced practical tools that allow you to obtain much more information out of a set of financial statements, enabling you to better assess a firm’s profitability and risk.
Target Audience
Management and officers of micro-finance institutions, finance managers and credit officers.
Course Contents:
- Financial Statement Information:
- Understanding of the accounting information contained in the annual reports (balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flows, and related footnotes and disclosures).
- Financial statement analysis and valuation.
- Examining the many value relevant pieces of information that financial statements contain, as well as the accounting choices managers make in light of their business strategy, contractual constraints and incentives, and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
- Analysis
- Analyze how financial statement information captures and reflects the critical factors of risk and success in the competitive environment and strategy of organization/MFI
- Introduction to a variety of advanced practical tools that allow obtaining much more information out of a set of financial statements, enabling to better assess a MFI’s profitability and
