Financial Statement Analysis

Objectives

The Curricular Unit has the following objectives for students:

- Getting familiar with companies? financial statements, including understanding the main statements, how they are connected and the meaning of their main captions.

- Using financial statements information for decision-making, both from a managerial and from an investment point of view, with an emphasis on understanding how to create value based on information from financial statements;

- Producing a valuation about the company using the information based on the financial statements (and other relevant sources) while applying fundamental analysis techniques.