Financial Statement Analysis

becge1213  2024-2025  Bruxelles Saint-Louis

Financial Statement Analysis
4.00 credits
30.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Prerequisites

The prerequisite(s) for this Teaching Unit (Unité d’enseignement – UE) for the programmes/courses that offer this Teaching Unit are specified at the end of this sheet.
Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

  • Describe and apply the basic techniques of financial statement analysis;
  • Identify and utilize value-relevant information contained within financial statements;
  • Recognize and explain the fundamental role of accounting numbers in the valuation of entities and the key financial claims on these entities’ assets (equity and debt securities);
  • diagnose the financial health of a company in terms of its financial equilibrium, solvency and profitability, and relate them to each other.
 
Content
This course is composed of three parts:
- The presentation of the evaluation rules of financial law, i.e. the ways of codifying economic realities in accounting data;

- A development of the methods of analysing the most common financial statements: restructuring in economic and financial masses, ratios, flow statements;

- An initiation to consolidation accounting, i.e. accounting of corporate groups.
Teaching methods
Lecture
Evaluation methods
3 hour written exam.
Other information
None
Bibliography
Cerrada K., De Rongé Y. et De Wolf M., Comptabilité et Analyse des états financiers, De Boeck Université, 3ème édition, 2019
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Economics and Management

Bachelor in Economics and Management (French-English)

Bachelor in Economics and Management (French-Dutch-English)

Bachelor : Business Engineering

Bachelor : Business Engineering (French-English)

Bachelor : Business Engineering (French-Dutch-English)