Learn Excel modelling to analyze financial statements for the assessment of a firm's profitability performance
Understanding a company's profitability is essential for investors, analysts, and business professionals. This hands-on course teaches you how to analyze financial statements by focusing on key profitability ratios. Using Microsoft Excel, you'll learn to build a practical financial ratio analysis model using real, publicly available financial data. You'll explore the definitions, calculations, and interpretations of profitability ratios to evaluate a firm’s performance over time and against industry benchmarks.
Ideal for aspiring financial analysts, accountants, or anyone looking to enhance their financial analysis skills, this course provides a step-by-step approach to using Excel as a powerful tool for ratio analysis. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to confidently assess a company’s profitability and draw meaningful conclusions from financial data.
Dr. Md Mohan Uddin is currently a Professor of Finance at United International University. Before that, he held various senior faculty member positions at universities in Bangladesh and Malaysia. He also taught online Masters students of University of Roehampton and supervised online graduate dissertation students of University of Liverpool. During his academic career, he has been teaching undergraduate/graduate level business and finance courses since 2003. The courses he taught include: Corporate Finance, International Finance, Financial Management, Principles of Finance, Investment Analysis, Bank Management, Banking & Insurance, Project Management, Strategic Management, and Computer Applications in Business. He has got his PhD in Finance from Universiti Utara Malaysia, and MBA and BBA degrees majoring in Finance and Banking from University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. He enjoys making learning and instruction videos and is very much excited to be engaged with online platforms like Udemy and skillshare, where he can utilize those technologies for the purpose of reaching a large number of learners worldwide. In addition to presenting research papers in international conferences he has also been active in publishing research articles in different local and international journals in the area of finance. His area of interest includes corporate finance, capital market and its regulation, international finance, financial criminology, Islamic finance and small business finance.
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