Reading 33 Financial Statement Analysis: Applications (Layout)
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Section 2 of this reading describes the use of financial statement analysis to evaluate a company’s past financial performance.
Section 3 describes basic approaches to projecting a company’s future financial performance.
Section 4 presents the use of financial statement analysis in assessing the credit quality of a potential debt investment.
Section 5 concludes the survey of applications by describing the use of financial statement analysis in screening for potential equity investments. Analysts often encounter situations in which they must make adjustments to a company’s reported financial results to increase their accuracy or comparability with the financials of other companies.
Section 6 illustrates several common types of analyst adjustments.
Section 7 presents a summary.