Introduction to Financial Analysis / Kenneth S. Bigel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bigel, Kenneth S., author.

Series:

Open textbook library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finance--Textbooks.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 455 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Open Touro, [2022]

Summary:

This Open Textbook is a dynamic guide incorporating the essential skills needed to build a foundation in Financial Analysis. Students and readers will learn how to insightfully read a Financial Statement, utilize key financial ratios in order to derive forward-looking investment-related inferences from the accounting data, engage in elementary forecasting and modeling, master the theory of the Time Value of Money, and learn to price stocks and bonds in an environment in which interest rates constantly change. Ample problems and solutions, and review questions are provided to the student so that s/he can gauge his/her progress. This text will be continually updated in order to provide novel information and enhance students' experiences.

Contents:

About the Author

Author's Acknowledgements

Open Touro Acknowledgements

Preface

Part I: Financial Statements and Ratio Analysis, and Forecasting

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Financial Statement Analysis: The Balance Sheet

Chapter 3: Financial Statements Analysis: The Income Statement

Chapter 4: Financial Statements and Finance

Part II: Ratio Analysis and Forecasting Modeling

Chapter 5: Financial Ratios and Forecasting; Liquidity and Solvency Ratios

Chapter 6: Profitability and Return Ratios, and Turnover

Chapter 7: Market Ratios

Chapter 8: Cash Flow, Depreciation, and Financial Projections

Chapter 9: Corporate Forecasting Models

Part III: The Time Value of Money

Chapter 10: The Time Value of Money: Simple Present- and Future-Values

Chapter 11: The Time Value of Money: Annuities, Perpetuities, and Mortgages

Part IV: Interest Rates, Valuation, and Return

Chapter 12: Fixed Income Valuation

Chapter 13: Interest Rates

Chapter 14: Equity Valuation and Return Measurement.

Notes:

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