📊 Strategic Financial Analysis

📝 Course Overview

This interactive course delivers a practical, real-world approach to financial analysis by focusing on core financial statements, ratio analysis, trend analysis, and forecasting techniques. Through case studies and Excel-based exercises, participants will build the skills needed to make informed decisions and present financial insights to stakeholders effectively.

🎯 Key Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Interpret and analyze financial statements with confidence

• Apply horizontal, vertical, and ratio analysis

• Use Excel to model and forecast financial performance

• Evaluate company profitability, liquidity, solvency, and efficiency

• Perform comparative and trend analysis

• Identify red flags and evaluate business health for decision-making

🧠 Training Methodology

• Instructor-led lectures

• Hands-on Excel modeling

• Case studies and real company data

• Team exercises and group discussion

• Final assessment and project presentation

📅 5-Day Agenda with Daily Time Breakdown

📘 Day 1: Introduction to Financial Statements & Business Analysis

📗 Day 2: Ratio Analysis and Financial Health Indicators

📙 Day 3: Trend and Comparative Analysis Techniques

📕 Day 4: Forecasting and Financial Modeling in Excel

📒 Day 5: Strategic Interpretation and Final Project

📂 Course Deliverables

• Excel Templates for Ratio & Forecast Analysis

• Financial Analysis Checklists

• Case Study Workbook

• Certificate of Completion