Course details
The goal of business performance analysis is to identify improvement opportunities, understand their root causes, and take action. These opportunities can come in many forms. They can be performance issues or areas of the business that perform extremely well and can be leveraged even further.
This course, the first in our Financial Analysis series, introduces you to key concepts of business performance analysis. Author Rudolph Rosenberg focuses on the analysis of the profit and loss (the P&L) statement and on the key dynamics you need to understand in order to interpret the performance of your business. Understanding this data will help you make informed decisions that benefit your company in the long run.
Get started now with this quick primer. When you’re ready for the next steps, check out Financial Analysis: Analyzing the Top Line with Excel and Financial Analysis: Analyzing the Bottom Line with Excel.
Instructor
Rudolph Rosenberg is a global leader in finance and business.Rudolph has been working for over two decades with businesses large and small, helping them achieve higher levels of performance through his pragmatic and action-oriented approach. He is passionate about helping people and companies achieve their full potential and developing content that simplifies the learning and understanding of business, entrepreneurship, and finance, and empowers anyone who is looking to get ahead and be successful.Rudolph shares his time between his CFO activities for leading tech companies and authoring finance and business content. You can find more information about him and get in contact through his website at rudolphrosenberg.com.
Welcome
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(upbeat music) – [Voiceover] Hi, I’m Rudolph Rosenberg and welcome to Financial Analysis, Introduction to Business Performance Analysis. This course is the first of a series on the analysis of business performance, with a focus on practical techniques to analyze the PNL of a company and get the insights you need to run your business. In this first course we will be introducing the high level concepts that need to be mastered before diving into the detailed analysis of the top line and the bottom line of a business. Now let’s get started with Financial Analysis, Introduction to Business Performance Analysis.