15.535 | Spring 2003 | Graduate

Business Analysis Using Financial Statements

Course Description

The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. We will apply your economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today's business news to help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and …
The purpose of this class is to advance your understanding of how to use financial information to value and analyze firms. We will apply your economics/accounting/finance skills to problems from today’s business news to help us understand what is contained in financial reports, why firms report certain information, and how to be a sophisticated user of this information.
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Photo of a man typing on a computer.
Analyzing financial documents while typing at a computer. (Photograph courtesy of Ben Ullman, budesigns. Used with permission.)