Learn Finance, Accounting, Modeling, and Valuation from Scratch

“Introduction to Finance, Accounting, Modeling, and Valuation” is the #1 best-selling accounting course on Udemy. In it, you will learn to analyze and understand an income statement, a balance sheet, a cash flow statement, and to understand and use modeling best practices so you can create financial models. You will learn to understand valuation best practices so you can create target prices based on your financial models, how to use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and how to create the Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Terminal values in order to pick target prices, plus lots more.

Introduction to Finance, Accounting, Modeling, and Valuation – Course Content

After taking this course you will understand how to create, analyze and forecast an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement. You will also know how to value companies, using several different valuation methodologies, so you can come up with target prices for the companies that you are analyzing. You will also know how to analyze financial statements using many different financial ratios/formulas.

The course comprises 61 lectures organized into the following sections:

Course Introduction
Accounting Part 1 of 3: Income Statement Analysis
Accounting Part 2 of 3: Balance Sheet Analysis
Accounting Part 3 of 3: Cash Flow Statement Analysis
Financial Modeling Part 1 of 4: Introduction and Best Practices
Financial Modeling Part 2 of 4: Where Do I Get Historical Data From?
Financial Modeling Part 3 of 4: Case Study: Building a Model for LinkedIn
Financial Modeling Part 4 of 4: Financial Model Exercise
Valuation Part 1 of 6: Introduction and Best Practices
Valuation Part 2 of 6: Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Valuation Part 3 of 6: Price to Revenue
Valuation Part 4 of 6: Price to Earnings & Additional Valuation Methodologies
Valuation Part 5 of 6: Final Target Price Calculation & “TAM Sanity Check”
Valuation Part 6 of 6: Valuation Part 6 of 6 Comparing TAM to the Target Price
Assessing Financials with Formulas
Course Conclusion
Bonus Materials

Requirements

You don’t need to have any accounting or finance experience as we will cover all of the concepts from scratch.
You need to have access to and a very basic understanding of how to use Microsoft Excel.

Summary of Course Main Features

Instructors:
- Chris Haroun – Award Winning MBA Professor, Venture Capitalist, and Author.
- Complete Business Education with Chris Haroun – Publisher of Business and Professional Development Training
Lectures: 61
On-demand video: 4.5 hours
Articles: 6
Downloadable resources: 14
Includes
- 30-Day Money-Back Guarantee
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of Completion