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Introduction to Financial Ratio Analysis (Udemy.com)

Learn to calculate and interpret various activity, liquidity, solvency, profitability, and valuation ratios

Created by: 365 Careers

Last updated November 2022

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What you will learn

  • Calculate and interpret various financial multiples
  • Learn how to evaluate a company using ratio analysis
  • Interpret ratios used in credit & equity analysis
  • Ratio analysis & forecasting

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Course Description

Curious about financial ratio analysis and how it can benefit your decision-making?

Ever wondered what abbreviations like ROE, P/E, EPS, ROA, and GPM mean—and how to interpret them effectively?

You’re in the right place!

This course offers a clear, comprehensive guide to ratio analysis, breaking down complex concepts into practical insights. With its structured approach, you'll gain a solid understanding of how to apply financial ratios in real-world scenarios.

We’ll teach you how to assess whether a company:

  • Is generating sufficient profits to cover its expenses

  • Is heavily in debt and headed to insolvency

  • Has some liquidity issues and significant cash shortages

  • Is under- or overvalued

In fact, this is essential for those of you who have taken on a career in Finance, such as:

  • Finance Manager

  • Financial Analyst

  • Equity Analyst

  • Investor, or

  • Someone who is just keen to enhance their financial literacy and skills.

We will tackle several categories of financial multiples with practical examples and challenges aiming to reinforce what you have learned. The course is beautifully animated, easy to follow, and interactive. Our goal is to deliver the ultimate training experience for you!

The financial ratios that we will cover fall into the following categories:

Activity ratios

Trade receivables turnover

Trade payables turnover

Inventory turnover

Liquidity ratios

Current ratio

Cash ratio

Quick ratio

Solvency ratios

Debt-to-assets

Debt-to-capital

Debt-to-equity

Financial Leverage

Profitability ratios

Gross profit margin

Operating profit margin

Net profit margin

Return on assets (ROA)

Return on equity (ROE)

Valuation ratios

Earnings per share (EPS)

Price/earnings ratio (P/E)

Dividend yield

In addition, we will examine a key technique called the DuPont Analysis.

It compiles a number of ratios into a comprehensive financial analysis framework. This is а definite must-know for everyone interested in becoming a seasoned professional in the field.

And that’s not all!

By the end of the course, you will also get the chance to compute some financial ratios employed in equity and credit analysis, as well as learn what segment reporting is.

Finally, we will illustrate how ratio analysis can be used to model and forecast earnings. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it?

We are happy to offer an unconditional 30-day money-back in full guarantee. No risk for you. The content of the course is superior, and we have no doubt you will love it.

Knowledge is the most powerful weapon for all, especially in times of crisis!

So, why wait? Every day is a missed opportunity.

Click the “Buy Now” button and become a part of our Introduction to Financial Ratio Analysis training today.


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Instructor Details

365 Careers

365 Careers is the #1 best-selling provider of business, finance, data science and AI courses on Udemy. The company’s courses have been taken by more than 4,000,000 students in 210 countries. People working at world-class firms like Apple, PayPal, and Citibank have completed 365 Careers trainings.    

Currently, 365 focuses on the following topics on Udemy:    1) Finance – Finance fundamentals, Financial modeling in Excel, Valuation, Accounting, Capital budgeting, Financial statement analysis (FSA), Investment banking (IB), Leveraged buyout (LBO), Financial planning and analysis (FP&A), Corporate budgeting, applying Python for Finance, Tesla valuation case study, CFA, ACCA, and CPA

2) Data science – Statistics, Mathematics, Probability, SQL, Python programming, Python for Finance, Business Intelligence, R, Machine Learning, TensorFlow, Tableau, the integration of SQL and Tableau, the integration of SQL, Python, Tableau, Power BI, Credit Risk Modeling, and Credit Analytics, Data literacy, Product Management, Pandas, Numpy, Python Programming, Data Strategy

3) Entrepreneurship – Business Strategy, Management and HR Management, Marketing, Decision Making, Negotiation, and Persuasion, Tesla's Strategy and Marketing

4) Office productivity – Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, and Microsoft Outlook

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Reviews

4.4

1,755 ratings on Udemy

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By Ricardo Hurtado on 11/11/2025

It is pretty well organized, clear explanation, nothing in depth but all extremely useful. This can be revisit regularly for refreshment. Absolutely recommendable!

By Rajat Aggarwal on 9/12/2024

I found the lecture on financial analysis tools and techniques to be very informative and well-structured. The explanation of various financial models and tools was clear and relevant. However, I think the lecture could benefit from more practical examples or case studies to better illustrate how these tools are applied in real-world scenarios.

By Oskar Slivnik on 12/21/2023

by creating forecast, gross profit margin growth was 1.4 percentage points (pp), assumed was the same growth for the future, but was used 1.4% growth, not 1.4 pp, so different. By defining best and worst case scenario should, to be more realistic, also be considered growth compared to market.

By Jennifer Goldberg on 11/28/2023

This course has EXCEEDED my expectations. Amazing content and delivery. Incredibly easy to understand. They've taken a complex topic and made it accessible, relatable, and interesting.

By Jorge Lievano on 9/15/2023

Un curso bastante completo y totalmente objetivo. Una gran alternativa para las personas que necesiten mejorar o refrescar conocimientos de financial ratio analysis.

By Anay Chourey on 5/2/2022

More deeper info should be given for each topics as some are superficial in explaination

By Moemedi Max Nthai on 3/10/2022

Yes it was very good because it has helped to understand more details regarding financials analyses and I will ensure I do four more courses. I still support your recommendations.

By Anonymized User on 1/3/2022

Resources could appear in the relevant section of the training so that we are able to follow through better

By Gerardo Gutierrez-Olvera on 6/22/2021

Very practical and well-explained easy-to-follow videos. The downloadable resources are also quite useful tools

By Tushar Bansal on 11/3/2020

It was a good learning experience. I had absolutely no accounting and financing background but I did not find it hard to understand anything. This course starts pretty much from the scratch but if someone want full understanding will need to do some self study too.

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Overall Score : 88 / 100