Financial Analysis: Introduction to Business Performance Analysis (LinkedIn Learning – Lynda)

This is the first in a series of Rudolph Rosenberg's Financial Analysis courses on LinkedIn Learning, and it gives you a fast overview of the essential ideas of business performance analysis. This course focuses on how to examine a company's PNL (profit and loss) and gain the knowledge needed to run a firm using practical methodologies. Understanding the information contained in a firm's profit and loss statements aids in making well-informed decisions that benefit the company in the long run.

The course's instructor, Rudolph Rosenberg, is a global finance and business executive who brings over 20 years of experience to this course. This is a short course with little over 20 minutes of video content that serves as an introduction to the essential ideas and serves as a stepping stone to Rudolph's other financial analysis courses:

• Financial Analysis: Using Excel to Examine the Top Line — This course covers practical methods for analyzing a company's top line, or revenue. It explains the financial concepts required to comprehend revenue performance, identifies the origins of under or over performance, and covers procedures for gathering, preparing, and analyzing data using Microsoft Excel, which every firm has access to.
• Financial Analysis: Using Excel to Examine the Bottom Line — This course covers the financial fundamentals that are required to comprehend gross margin and operating expense performance. It teaches students how to use Excel's tools and techniques to prepare and analyze data, such as PivotTables and the useful SUMIF function. It also teaches how to separate and analyze sales and marketing spending, staff expenditures, and productivity so that a clear image of the data can be obtained from many perspectives.

Key Highlights

• Examine the important dynamics you'll need to know in order to interpret your company's performance.
• Learn how to analyze financial data with Excel.
• Exercises to put the course's contents into practice
• For a 30-day trial period, you will have free access to all course materials.

• Practice while you learn: 1 exercise file
• Test your knowledge: 6 quizzes
• Learn on the go: Access on tablet and phone
• Stay up to date: Continuing Education Units

Duration: 1-hour on-demand video

Rating: 4.4/5

Link: https://www.linkedin.com/learning/financial-analysis-making-business-projections