This course is designed to take you through the basic and advanced levels of financial ratio analysis and use these various ratios to make decisions surrounding growth of a business, profitability of a business, liquidity of a business and solvency of a business.

Using these newly founded tools, you will be able to take a look at any other business' Financial Statements and determine if you should invest in a business. Furthermore, you will be able to look at any business' Financial Statements and propose certain actions in order to remedy profitability, liquidity and solvency with the skills that you have learnt from this course.

These ratios are used for potential and existing investors looking to invest their own money into a company that will produce a return. With any investment, there is an element of risk. This is why investors make use of key ratios in determining the types of return that they wish to achieve. All of these key rations will be taught to you in this course.

We have also included a lecture on the calculation of weighted average cost of capital (WACC). This video will show you how to calculate the WACC of any business making use of the ratios that you will learn within this course. We have gone a step further and included an Excel template for you to download and make use of in the future.