Build a practical financial analysis toolkit that works for both your job and CMA Part 2A.
🔍 Analysis depth: Turn financial statements into clear insights using ratios, trends and profitability analysis.
🤝 Stronger partnering: Explain results to non finance leaders with stories that link drivers and outcomes.
📈 Better decisions: Support strategy, investment and performance decisions with robust, exam ready analysis.
FP&A analysts, business partners and controllers providing financial statement analysis to business unit, regional or group leadership.
Finance managers and CMA candidates needing deeper, work anchored preparation for Part 2 financial statement analysis.
Knowledge: Comfort with basic financial statements and introductory ratio concepts from Part 1 and non cert courses.
Tools: Spreadsheet skills and CMA approved calculator for numerical problems.
Perform common size, trend and comparative financial statement analysis.
Compute and interpret key liquidity, leverage, activity, profitability and market ratios.
Analyze profitability by revenue, cost and expense components and assess earnings quality.
Evaluate special issues such as FX changes, inflation and accounting method changes.
Eligibility: currently not eligible
Watch time: about 3 hours
Total learning: about 6 hours
Estimated credits: 4.0