This course is intended to expose the participants to financial analysis in a strategic context and to enable participants to extend the analysis to forecasting and projecting firm performance, culminating with a valuation of the firm.

The course has the following specific goals: 1) provide framework for financial analysis; 2) provide tools of financial analysis; 3) skills for forecasting financial performance; 4) develop an understanding of cash flow based and earnings based approaches to valuation; 5) skills in using valuation models in different contexts.