FRE 6271 Valuation of Equity Securities and Financial Statement Analysis

1.5 Credits

This course examines in detail the tools and techniques for analyzing financial statements for purposes of credit evaluation, forecasting, identifying merger candidates, enhancing the efficiency of decision making and diagnosing problem areas in the firm before crises develop. Students learn to use financial ratios to conduct duPont (i.e., decomposition) analysis, a methodology to discover sources of poor performance through interrelationships among a firm’s financial ratios.

Prerequisite(s): FRE 6003 and FRE 6103 .
Weekly Lecture Hours: 1.5 | Weekly Lab Hours: 0 | Weekly Recitation Hours: 0