Learn where a business is headed and the resources it will need to succeed. Find out how to build financial forecasts using income statements and balance sheets.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know
- Exercise files
- What is finance?
- The four different financial statements
- The accounting equation
- Financial forecasting
- Naive approach
- Simple moving average
- Weighted moving average
- Seasonal adjusted trend
- Simple exponential smoothing
- Contextualize the situation
- Pro forma and operationalization
- Percent of sales forecasting
- Property, plant, and equipment
- Borrowing and interest expense
- Income tax expense
- Equity and cash
- Make adjustments
- Cash flows vs. pro forma statements
- Earnings before interest and taxes
- Depreciation and capital expenditures
- Net working capital and free cash flow
- What is a regression?
- Univariate example
- Hidden variables
- Multivariate example
- Next steps
Taught by
Yash Patel
