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Analyzing Financial Statements in Python
IntermediateSkill Level
Updated 06/2023PythonApplied Finance4 hr13 videos47 Exercises4,000 XP4,530Statement of Accomplishment
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Use Python to Analyze Financial Statements
Balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are financial statements nearly every major company uses. These statements contain a plethora of information about a company's financial position. This four-hour course will lay the groundwork to analyze financial statements in Python and understand a company's financial position in-depth.Compute Essential Ratios from Financial Statements
You’ll begin by learning how to read financial statements—the first step in learning how to analyze them. Next, you'll practice computing some of the most common financial ratios from the statements using pandas - a powerful Python data manipulation and analysis tool. You'll also learn how to use different functionalities of pandas to compare the financial ratios of companies and assess their financial health.Learn How to Deal With Real-World Financial Data
'Data in the wild' is riddled with missing values. In this course, you'll practice dealing with missing financial information through interactive exercises. You’ll also learn how to present your analysis using data visualization—another essential skill in financial analysis.Reduce Repetitive Work with User-Defined Functions
One of the great things about using Python for analyzing financial statements compared to standard spreadsheets is that you can reduce repetitive work. By writing your own functions in Python, you’ll learn to make your analysis faster and more efficient by reducing repetition.Prerequisites
Data Manipulation with pandas1
The Balance Sheet
In this chapter, you will learn how to read and interpret a balance sheet and compute and use financial ratios to evaluate a company's performance using information from the balance sheet. Additionally, you'll gain hands-on experience using the powerful pandas data manipulation package to analyze a company's financial ratios and compare them to its peers in the industry.
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The Income Statement
In this chapter, you'll learn how to read and interpret an income statement, calculate key financial ratios, and even create your own functions in Python to automate repetitive tasks. You'll also gain experience using seaborn, a powerful data visualization library, to produce figures to help you understand a company's financial performance.
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The Cash Flow Statement
In this chapter, you’ll analyze the cash flow statement and use its information to compute and interpret financial ratios. Using Seaborn to create informative plots that compare financial ratios across different companies, you'll build on your existing knowledge of Python and data visualization. By the end of this chapter, you'll have the skills to extract insights from cash flow statements using Python and handle messy, real-world data sets with missing data.
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Profitability metrics
In this chapter, you'll learn about the different financial ratios that measure a company's profitability, how to compute them, and how to compare them across other companies. You'll build upon your knowledge of the Seaborn library to create visualizations that help you analyze profitability ratios and identify trends.
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FAQs
Which financial statements does this course teach me to analyze?
You will analyze balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, learning to read them and compute financial ratios to assess a company's financial position.
What Python library is central to the financial analysis in this course?
Pandas is the primary tool. You will use it to compute financial ratios, compare companies, handle missing financial data, and manipulate statement data throughout the course.
Does this course address missing data in financial statements?
Yes. The course includes dedicated practice on dealing with missing financial information, a common challenge when working with real-world financial data.
Will I learn to visualize financial analysis results?
Yes. The course covers data visualization as an essential skill for presenting your financial analysis findings clearly and effectively.
Do I need a finance background to take this course?
No finance degree is needed, but you should know Python basics, intermediate Python, and pandas. The course teaches you to read and interpret financial statements from scratch.
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