AFA 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Financial Statement Analysis, Stock Trader, Numerical Analysis

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Financial statement analysis can be broken down into the following steps: determine why the analysis is being done and clarify the decision focus, gather all available data. This would include not only the most recent financial statements but also information on the company"s business, its industry and competitors, and the economy. A complete analysis may be done only with an understanding of the environment within which the company conducts business: apply the appropriate analytical techniques. There is a large variety of ratios and other a(cid:374)al(cid:455)ti(cid:272)al tools to use; gi(cid:448)e(cid:374) the de(cid:272)isio(cid:374) (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:373)ade a(cid:374)d the (cid:272)o(cid:374)te(cid:454)t, the (cid:862)right(cid:863) analytical tools must be chosen: analyze and interpret the results. This is the most important step of any financial statement analysis. It is easy to perform the calculations; it is much more difficult to understand how the results will impact the decisions being made.

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