Advanced Topics in Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation

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This course is designed to prepare students to interpret and analyze financial statements for tasks such as credit and security analyses, lending and investment decisions, and other decisions that rely on financial data. This course explores in greater depth financial reporting from the perspective of financial statement users. In addition, this course helps students understand some important and challenging accounting topics, such as cash flow analysis, pension analysis, lease analysis, accounting changes, financial instruments as liabilities and equity, etc.