Tips on Financial Analysis Materials

Dear all,

I recently came into a position where I may have to teach some people about basic accounting, financial statement analysis, and credit analysis at an introductory level. I was looking for some free or reasonably priced, (non-torrented) materials that I could use to build up a curriculum but have not seen much outside of 1-2k training programs. I would like to ask the WSO community if anybody has come across anything that fits this bill to some extent? If not I will have to just use all of my personal textbooks and other resources to put together a proprietary curriculum, but would like to streamline this process as much as possible.

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That sounds like a basic accounting 101 course to me (at least in my country). Won't one of your old accounting textbooks fit the bill? Or what is missing that you need?

 

I would ideally like a resource that skips the basically useless T-account stuff that populates all of my accounting texts that I could just shoot over via email a few days/weeks before the actual course begins that would give somebody not necessarily from a finance background an adequate introduction to financial statements and their basic analysis (ratios and their interpretations). Chewing through a 400-800 page accounting text might be overkill on this and before I commit the time to distill one of these tomes down to the essentials, I want to take a look at all of the stuff that's already out there.

 

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