MSF-800

Course Number

MSF-800

Course Name

Financial Statement Analysis

Course Credits

3.00-

Description

'This course focuses on corporations, including financial services companies. Major topics include: analysis of cash flow; dilutive securities and earnings per share; analysis of accounting changes; basic strategies in identifying distortion and fraud; off- balance sheet lending and borrowing; capital structure issues; mortgage-backed securities; asset-based financing; analysis of intercorporate investments, of business combinations, and of multinational operations. Additionally, the tax implications of various derivative securities are studied. '