How to Read Financial Statements

Experience the first finance course that comes with an artificial intelligence tutor to quiz you and answer your questions!

Understand the financial health of any business by learning to read and analyze financial statements. In this course we take you line-by-line through Apple’s actual financial statements and explain every concept with simple terms, animations, and examples.

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Meet Your Instructors

Elaine Paul

CFO, Lyft
CFO, Hulu

Nick Van Dyk

Chief Strategy Officer, Nexon
SVP, The Walt Disney Co.

Alexi Robichaux

CEO/Cofounder, BetterUp

Nic Barnhart

Cofounder/CEO, Pareto Labs
Finance/Analytics, ZipRecruiter

Tommy Moreno

CEO, AMI Entertainment
Strategic Planning, Disney

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Curriculum

01

Income Statement: Above the Line

Understand the revenue and cost of “ingredients” that go into creating and delivering products to determine how much money is left over to pay for business operations.

02

Income Statement: Below the Line

How much did the company spend running the business? That’s what we’ll discover in this lesson!

03

Income Statement: Simple Analysis

By the end of this lesson, you will understand a company’s operations just by looking at the income statement.

04

Balance Sheet: Overview

How to look at a balance sheet, know where the money comes from, and how it is put to use.

05

Balance Sheet: Liabilities

Understand how much the business owes to other people.

06

Balance Sheet: Shareholders’ Equity

Understand how much money investors have put into the business in exchange for ownership and how much money the company has retained from its own profits to grow the business.

07

Balance Sheet: Assets

Discover how all the capital is being put to use to run the business.

08

Cash Flow Statement

Learn about the different sources of cash flow and why it matters where the cash comes from.

09

Financial Ratios

Now you know how to read financial statements! Congrats! But to unlock their power, you have to put the numbers into context.

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