Financial analysis made easy (and quick!)

Jean Pousson from Board Evaluation gives a short way to financially assess your business.

[victorohiri]

Oh the simplicity! Watching 7 years after and this is still brilliant!

[mohitonam]

One of the best ways to learn financial analysis

1. Pick the financial statements of your favourite company

2. Now you can go through so many wonderful resources on youtube, online courses, books that teach you the basics of financial statement analysis . But make sure whatever resource you pick it is based on practical examples using real world companies.

3. This is the most important step; apply those financial analysis to the company you have chosen. This is where most people go wrong. They don’t apply their knowledge and as a result their knowledge remains theoretical.

4. Pick another company and repeat the process.

Things to make sure when picking up the right resource:

If you are picking up a book start with a light one like interpretation of financial statement analysis by warren buffet, don’t go straight for heavyweights like Security analysis by Benjamin Graham
If you are looking at youtube videos make sure it is based on real life companies and it is not just teach you a small part of financial analysis.
If you are going for an online course, the advantage is that there will be lots of courses, I suggest to pick like the one at end of this comment which has loads of practical examples using real world companies.
Whatever resource you decide to pick, let me tell you you have the ability to learn financial analysis of any company you desire . The key thing is to practice, practice and practice using financial statements of real world companies.

Pro Tip: Don’t just go for the most popular course, first go through the preview of the course and see what is it contents. For eg. every course of financial analysis talks about ratio analysis but no one talks about corporate life cycle.

What I mean is that analysis of Coca- Cola (which is a very old established company) will be very different than a new start up like Peleton

So be patient, be curious and practice, practice and practice using real companies.

Hope this helps
Mohit Mittal

[verasasinowski]

I work as financial analyst and I was looking for videos like this for my son who is going to business school. This is so well done! thank you very much!

[shreyjain]

Would recommend all the trainers to teach at this level.BRILLIANT

[kashtagraham]

You are absolutely brilliant. Thanks for this quick, clear and concise tutorial

[piano]

I have listened to this presentation several time, and taken notes. It's so clearly presented and explained . . thank you!

[isaacdonkor]

Just loved this presentation. I wish I had you as my financial analysis prof from day one!

[ahss]

I am an accountant and I watch 7 min of this video so far and I think it is brilliant. Well Jean!👏

[kahlschlag]

Mercy beaucoup. If I had had teachers like that I would not have dropped out of school when I did. Clear, easy, steady pace and low glace-over ratio.

[touchandreascurls]

Amazing, simple, concise and great voice! You are a master who can translate complicated matters, simply. Thank you ever so much :)

[siragbennaser]

Thanks so much
Very nice consistent story.
Thanks Mr Pousson

[richardwyss]

Thank you, appreciate your time and education. Easy to understand

[tracyburns]

Recommended to me Jean from someone who enjoyed your IOD finance class; very useful for my own exam preparations.

[TSquared]

This was a great refresher course for me. Thank you very much!

[Aboudi]

Thank you so much! That’s exactly what I needed for my case study.

[taiwofakoya]

Oh how I wish I had seen this video before my financial analysis assignment was due last week!! 😭😭 The summary at the end would have been the basis of my report!

[farmlife]

I've been running my own company now. This video make so easy to understand. Thnks Team

[hasanlamat]

Thank you so much. I absolutly love this presentation. This transation from financial numbers to real financial meanings is just wordeful. I hope you can explain to us more about the cash flow statement beacause it is still a bit difficult to wotk it out.

[georginamohr]

Great tutorial! Thank you so much for your time!

[shaistafarooqi]

Wow.. no one could havd made this so simple and easy to understand. Thank you.. this just refershed my learning till date.