Financial Analysis Associate
Read a set of accounts and say what is actually going on.
Add it to your LinkedIn profile with the insiderOne logo, verifiable by anyone.
What you will be able to do
- Say which of the three statements answers a given question
- Read a profit and loss statement and find where the money goes
- Work out a break-even point and what happens if volume doubles
- Compute a cash conversion cycle and explain why growth eats cash
- Compute and interpret the handful of ratios that actually get used
- Write three sentences a founder would act on
Commerce students, freshers going into finance or analytics, and anyone in a startup who is suddenly responsible for the numbers.
What is in it
- 1Three statements, three questions11 min
- 2Reading a profit and loss11 min
- 3What costs actually do11 min
- 4The balance sheet11 min
- 5The cash conversion cycle11 min
- 6Why profitable companies die11 min
- 7The ratios that get used11 min
- 8Saying what it means11 min
What is actually going on here
A short analysis: what happened, what is actually going on underneath, and what you would tell the founder about the new chain, with the questions you would want answered first.
About 125 minutes in total.
Two levels
Finish the units and the project and you get the Certificate of Completion. Pass the live skill challenge on Financial Analysis at Practitioner level or above and it becomes a Verified Certificate, which anyone you send it to can check for themselves.
Questions
What does it cost?
Nothing while insiderOne is in beta.
Can an employer check it?
Yes. Every certificate has its own page, and the code printed on it resolves there without anyone needing an account.
Do I need any experience?
No. These are written for students and people in their first job, and they assume nothing.
What do I actually walk away with?
The certificate, and the piece of work you made for the project. That goes into your insiderOne profile as a proof item, private until you choose to show it.
Know someone studying this?
It is free while insiderOne is in beta, and the certificate is checkable by anyone they send it to.