Essential Financial Ratios You Need to Know (Webinar)

Sound business decisions can only be made with accurate business insights. So, how do you find the answers to make the right calls? Join "Essential Financial Ratios You Need to Know" for an in-depth look at critical financial ratios analysts use to measure business performance and interpret data for decision-making. In this hour-long session, CFI Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer Scott Powell and Executive VP of Financial Modeling Duncan McKeen will cover the most common ratios used for business analysis, real-world examples, and explanations—before opening the floor for direct Q&A.

In this webinar, we cover:
- Best practices for modeling financial ratios.
- Visualizing financial data for better storytelling.
- Financial ratios to unlock the story behind numbers.
- How to effectively present financial analysis in Excel.
- The importance of large datasets and full economic cycles.
- Essential financial ratios for finance and banking professionals.
- Understanding leverage, solvency, liquidity, and asset utilization ratios.

Chapters:
00:00 - Introduction to Financial Ratios
04:02 - Financial Analysis: Practical Tips
16:02 - Peer Group Benchmarking Checklist
19:04 - The Benefit of Visualizing Trends
21:36 - Essential Financial Ratios
35:23 - Solvency Ratios
39:48 - Liquidity Ratios
46:22 - Q&A

About Corporate Finance Institute:

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[nurlan]

Simplicity is a base for briliance. Bruce Lee. Thanks for providing briliant ideas. Very simple ratios and multiples now look very different. Especilly liked relation between ROIC and WACC.

[inokaranathunga]

Thank you. This is superb session. Inoka from Sri Lanka

[csanton]

Financial ratios from an investor standpoint is the dupont. Your return is influenced by your capital structure, how efficiently those financed assets translate into a business activity and the economics or financial viability of business activity.

Ratios mean relationships

[prosoccer]

What is the name of the template used in this video?

[jossigaar]

What is the name of the template in the template section of CFI? Thanks!