How to Read Balance Sheet (Udemy.com)
Its high time you develop your Balance Sheet reading skill - Enroll now
Created by: Raja Natarajan
Last updated October 2021
What you will learn
- How to Read Income Statement
- How to Read Balance Sheet
- How to Read Cash Flow Statement
How it compares
Against the other 200 rated Udemy courses in Accounting on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.4 out of 5higher than 31% of them
- Reviews166#154 of 201 by number of reviews
- Length3.7 hoursshorter than 70% of them
- Last updatedOctober 2021earlier than 66% of them
Course Description
Are you an Entrepreneur, interested in understanding how your business is performing?
Are you a Finance Manager / Bank Credit Officer, interested in Financial Statements Analysis?
Then you should develop your skill & ability to read Financial Statements & this course will help you achieve that.
Welcome to your course "How to Read Balance Sheet". By enrolling in this course, you get life time access to comprehensive lectures covering
a) Introduction to Financial Statements
b) Birds Eye View of Balance Sheet
c) Birds Eye View of Profit and Loss Statement
d) How to reduce Balance Sheet into digestible form
e) How to reduce Income Statement into digestible form
f) How to re-arrange Income Statement for effective understanding
g) How to understand Profit making capacity through Income Statement
h) How to understand Cost to Sales relationship through Income Statement
i) How to understand Interest & Loan Coverage through Income Statement & Balance Sheet
j) How to understand Return on Investment for Owners & Lenders from Income Statement & Balance Sheet
This course is a result of continuous demand from present students and so you can be happy that you are enrolling to develop the most sought-after skill.
This course is designed in self paced learning style. Try listening lectures with headphones for more clarity and keep taking notes for better understanding.
See you inside the course!
Instructor Details
- 4.4 Rating
166 Reviews
Raja Natarajan
I am a Chartered Accountant with tonnes of passion for teaching.
I teach Financial Management & Strategic Financial Management for Chartered Accountancy, Cost and Management Accountancy and Company Secretary students in Ernakulam, India. I also hold Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration in Finance from Symbiosis, Pune and Bachelors in Commerce, from Loyola College, Chennai.
I worked in State Bank of India as Assistant Vice President - Credit for a period of four years after which i started my Chartered Accountancy Practice. During the stint in State Bank of India, I worked on credit proposals of Mid Corporate Units and gained good experience in Financial Analysis, Risk Assessment, Viability Study, Evaluating business models, Project Finance, Working Capital Management, etc.
I conduct work shops for Entrepreneurs, Chartered Accountancy / Cost and Management Accountancy Students on the topics like Project Finance, Credit Risk Assessment, Entrepreneurship Development, Finance for Non Finance Executives, etc.
I love teaching and i want fundamentals of accounting and finance to reach students and so i am here.
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Reviews
By Brandon Hodges on 2/13/2025
Fairly boring. It does not test knowledge enough but it has explained some concepts clearly.
By Gunjan Harit on 5/10/2024
Very well explained in a practical application based approach
By Jamie Roberts on 4/18/2022
Good course and what I expected. As a finance professional, it was a good refresher.
By Vivek Verma on 1/22/2022
Quite clear, specially the real time example brought value to the explanation.
By Priyank Kothari on 1/17/2022
very well explained with good pace and clarity
By Shailesh Khot on 6/25/2021
Thorough explanation of balance sheet items in terms even a layman can understand
By Anurag Singh Tomar on 4/15/2021
The best in-depth course of balance sheet analysis I have come across.
By Shanahz M Alhad on 11/13/2020
excellent course! Got an insight on how to read and understand financial statements. This is exactly what i was looking for. Thank you Mr. Raja. You are an amazing teacher!
By Emran Khan Majlish on 5/19/2020
The course has boost up my knowledge regarding Balance Sheet as well as Income Statement & hope it will enhance my value. I enjoy the presentable delivery of Mr Raja who was the instructor one of my previous course 'Credit Analysis for Banker' in Udemy also a knowledgeable person in this line. Thanks //Topic lecture what you delivered will be more help full for us if we get the same in written for reading time to time (Like synopsis). Hope you will consider.
By Mike Thomson on 5/16/2020
While Income Statement and Balance Sheet get good Focus, Cash Flow Statement is very very very light in explanation.
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