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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Advanced Financial Statement Analysis

SMP810 · Strategic Financial Management — Week 3 of 16

CourseSMP810
Week3 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Advanced Financial Statement Analysis

  1. Statement of cash flows critique
  2. Earnings quality and distress prediction models
  3. Multi-dimensional ratio analysis
  4. Capital structure and liquidity assessments
  5. Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows | Financial Statement Analysis
  6. How to Detect Earnings Management
  7. How Companies Manipulate Cash Flow

What you will be able to do

  • 2.1 Analyse financial statements to assess the financial position of an organisation.
  • 2.2 Recommend organisational decisions based on evaluation of financial statements using financial ratios.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: analyse financial statements to assess the financial position of an organisation.

Study materials

Videos

  • Analyzing the Statement of Cash Flows | Financial Statement Analysis · YouTube · Edspira · 14 min · for registered students
  • How to Detect Earnings Management · YouTube · Edspira · 11 min · for registered students
  • How Companies Manipulate Cash Flow · YouTube · Edspira · 13 min · for registered students
  • Session 4: Financial Statement Analysis · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 20 min · for registered students
  • Session 4A: The Statement of Cash Flows (Examples) · YouTube · Aswath Damodaran · 16 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements, lecture notes: Ratio Analysis and Bankruptcy Detection · PDF · Other, slides · for registered students
  • MIT 15.535 Business Analysis Using Financial Statements, lecture notes: Detecting Earnings Management · PDF · Other, slides · for registered students
  • Intermediate Financial Accounting Vol. 2, Lyryx 2021-A, ch. 20: Statement of Cash Flows · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 311–380 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Strategic Cost Management and Systems Design
  • Week 2: Advanced Costing Optimisation and Pricing Strategies
  • Week 3: Advanced Financial Statement Analysis
  • Week 4: Corporate Portfolio Evaluation and Strategic Decision-Making
  • Week 5: Master Budget Architecture and Target Setting
  • Week 6: Critical Perspectives on Budgetary Control
  • Week 7: Strategic Working Capital and Funding Appraisals
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Long-Term Capital Structure and Funding Selection
  • Week 10: Capital Investment Appraisal Under Uncertainty
  • Week 11: Strategic Investment Governance and Qualitative Appraisals
  • Week 12: Applying Strategic Financial Management in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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