This course was last updated on 4/2022.
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✓ #1 Best Selling Accounting Course on Udemy (Learn Finance and Accounting the Easy Way)!
✓ Analyze and understand an income statement (even if you have no experience with income statements).
✓ Analyze and understand a balance sheet (even if you have no experience with balance sheets).
✓ Analyze and understand a cash flow statement (even if you have no experience with cash flow statements).
✓ Understand and use modeling best practices so you can create financial models.
✓ Know where to get data in order to build a financial model (in depth understanding of identifying and using/navigating the best free websites and sources to build your financial model)!
✓ Create a financial model (projecting the future) for an income statement.
✓ Create a financial model (projecting the future) for a balance sheet.
✓ Create a financial model (projecting the future) for a cash flow statement.
✓ Understand valuation best practices so you can create target prices based on your financial models.
✓ How to use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and how to create the Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Terminal values in order to pick target prices.
✓ How to use P/E in order to pick target prices.
✓ How to use P/R in order to pick target prices.
✓ Other valuation methodologies, including EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, P/B, EV/FCF, etc.
✓ Come up with a target price based on an average of several different valuation methodologies.
✓ Analyze the total addressable market for a company you are doing research on.
✓ Analyze financial statements using profitability ratios: Gross Margin (Cost of Goods Sold / Revenue), Operating Margin (EBITDA/ Revenue), Net Profit Margin (Net Income / Revenue), Return on Assets (Net Income / Assets) and Return on Equity (Net Income / Equity).
✓ Analyze financial statements using debt and inventory formulas: Debt to Assets (Total Liabilities/ Total Assets), Debt to Equity (Total Liabilities/ Total Equity), Interest Coverage Ratio (EBITDA / Interest) and Inventory Days on Hand (Inventory / Cost of Good Sold) * 365.
✓ Analyze and compare companies using the following formulas: Price / Earnings, PEG (P/E / Growth), Price / Revenue, EV/EBITDA, EV/Sales, Price/Free Cash Flow and Price / Book.
✓ We will do an extremely in depth professional accounting, finance, modeling and valuation analysis of LinkedIn using the accounting and finance methodologies used in this course (you will also have many exercises to complete that will help you understand accounting, finance, valuation and modeling).
• You don’t need to have any accounting or finance experience as we will cover all of the concepts from scratch. A requirement is that you have access to and a very basic understanding of how to use Microsoft Excel as we will use Microsoft Excel in the course as we will be analyzing and creating a Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow Statement. We will also learn how to create the following from scratch using Microsoft Excel: financial models so we can come up with target prices using Discounted Cash Flow, the Weighted Average Cost of Capital, Price to Earnings, Price to Revenue, etc. – again all from scratch (assuming you have no or some accounting/finance knowledge).
NASBA CPE accredited courseNational Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA)NASBA CPE credits: 6.0Recommended NASBA field of study: FinanceProgram level: BasicTo earn NASBA CPE credits:• Complete all videos
• Score 70% or higher on final exam
Glossary: Find PDF attached to the first lecture of this course.Completion to obtain CPE should be accomplished a year after purchase date.If you undertake this course for NASBA CPE credits, please complete the Self Study Course Evaluation.Udemy is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have the final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. For additional information including refunds and complaints, please see Udemy Terms of Use. For more information regarding administrative policies, please contact our support.Show moreShow less
• Anyone interested in how accounting works (no prior accounting experience is needed).
• Anyone interested in how finance works (no prior finance experience is needed).
• Anyone interested in how modeling works (no prior modeling experience is needed).
• Anyone interested in how valuation works (no prior valuation experience is needed).
• Anyone interested in how financial ratios works (no prior financial ratios experience is needed).
The course costs $24.99. And currently there is a 81% discount on the original price of the course, which was $129.99. So you save $105 if you enroll the course now.
YES, Introduction to Finance, Accounting, Modeling and Valuation has a 30-day money back guarantee. The 30-day refund policy is designed to allow students to study without risk.
Chris Haroun has created 70 courses that got 193,210 reviews which are generally positive. Chris Haroun has taught 1,224,088 students and received a 4.6 average review out of 193,210 reviews. Depending on the information available, we think that Chris Haroun is an instructor that you can trust.
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Chris Haroun is the CEO and Founder of the Haroun MBA Degree Program®. He has sold more than 1,000,000 of his online business & self improvement courses in 12 languages in 196 countries and his courses have been profiled in Business Insider, NBC, Inc, Forbes, CNN, Entrepreneur & on other business news websites. Chris is the author of the #1 best selling online business course called “An Entire MBA in 1 Course®” & many other courses.He’s the author of the book “101 Crucial Lessons They Don’t Teach You in Business School®,” which Business Insider wrote is “the most popular book of 2016.” Forbes called this book “1 of 6 books that all entrepreneurs must read right now.”He is the founder & CEO of Haroun Education Ventures, an award winning business school professor, MBA graduate from Columbia University & former Goldman Sachs employee. He has raised/managed over $1bn in his career.He also has work experience at hedge fund giant Citadel, consulting firm Accenture & several firms that he has started, including an investment firm that had a venture capital investment in Facebook several years before the Facebook IPO.He is a frequent guest lecturer at several Bay Area MBA schools including Berkeley & Stanford. He also has an undergraduate degree with a major in Management Information Systems & International Business from McGill University where he is a McGill University Dobson Fellow (awarded for his work mentoring students with start up business models).He has founded several companies & served on the boards of several Bay Area companies & charities, including The LEMO Foundation & Providing Opportunities for Women. His #1 charitable focus is currently building schools in Rwanda and other countries, as well as continuing to provide many scholarships to students all over the world.According to Business Insider “Haroun is one of the highest rated professors on Udemy, so you can expect to be in good hands through the course of your education.”He is passionate about education as he believes that all problems can be solved via education. Chris lives in Hillsborough, California with his wife Christine and his 3 sons Andrew, Matthew and Dylan.
