The importance of financial statements cannot be over-emphasized as, at the end of the day, the affairs of any business would be represented in Dollars and Cents by way of financial statements. Sales, Operation and HR Managers must, thus, understand and be able to analyse and interpret them for the purposes of analysis, budgeting, costing and reporting.

This 1 day course seeks to give the participants an understanding of what financial statements are all about – their uses, structure, format, contents and the key elements of financial performance indicators.

Participants will, after this module, feel more comfortable when faced with a set of financial statements. Financial statements can be very informative. At the same time, they can also be quite meaningless and even misleading, depending on whether one is able to read them beyond the figures shown. This course will take participants through discussions and exercises on both the qualitative and quantitative analysis of financial statements.