Financial Analysis Topics

Podcasts

• Breakeven analysis and the margin of safety

• Calculating how long your cash will last

• Cost reduction analysis

• Cost variability

• Data presentation

• Discounted cash flows

• How to derive a product cost

• How to present cost control information

• Managing in financial adversity, part 1

• Managing in financial adversity, part 2

• Managing in financial adversity, part 3

• Managing in financial adversity, part 4

• The product cancellation decision

• Variance analysis and horizontal analysis

General Financial Analysis

• Cost benefit analysis

• DuPont analysis

• Financial analysis

• Financial forecasting methods

• Financial ratio analysis

• How to calculate present value

• Incremental analysis

• Incremental cash flow

• Liquidity ratio analysis

• Make or buy analysis

• Quantitative analysis

• Sales trend analysis

• The cash to cash cycle

• The difference between cash flow and free cash flow

• The difference between present value and net present value

• The essentials of a financial analysis report

• The limitations of ratio analysis

• The time value of money concept

• Trend analysis

• Types of financial analysis

Financial Statement Analysis

• Burn rate

• Cash flow from assets

• Cash flow per share

• Cost of revenue

• Current ratio analysis

• Earnings before interest and taxes

• Equity turnover

• Financial statement analysis

• Horizontal analysis

• How a profitable business can run out of cash

• How to calculate capital expenditures

• How to use the quick ratio in financial analysis

• Income statement analysis

• Instability index of earnings

• NOPAT

• Price to cash flow ratio

• Profit analysis

• Profit formula

• The difference between EBIT and EBITDA

• The difference between turnover and profit

• The difference between vertical analysis and horizontal analysis

• The net income formula

• Vertical analysis

• What are illusory profits?

• What is EBITDA?

Capital Budgeting Analysis

• Advantages of the payback period

• Break even time

• Differential revenue

• Discounted payback period

• How to calculate NPV

• How to calculate the internal rate of return

• How to calculate the payback period

• Hurdle rate

• Incremental internal rate of return

• Internal rate of return

• Negative IRR

• Net present value

• Net present value analysis

• Payback method

• Payback period

• Payback reciprocal

• Return on equity analysis

• Return on investment

• Risk-adjusted discount rate

• The difference between NPV and IRR

• The discounted cash flow method

• The residual income approach

• Total project approach

Capital Structure Analysis 

• Capital structure

• Capital structure analysis

• Complex capital structure

• Optimal capital structure

• Simple capital structure

Margin Analysis

• After-tax real rate of return

• Contribution margin analysis

• Degree of operating leverage

• Direct margin

• Gross margin analysis

• Gross profit

• Gross profit analysis

• Gross profit percentage

• How to calculate contribution per unit

• How to calculate sales margin

• Incremental cost

• Incremental revenue

• Marginal profit

• Net income margin

• Net profit margin

• Operating margin

• Operating profit margin

• Profit margin

• Profit velocity analysis

• Segment margin

• The difference between gross margin and net margin

• The difference between gross margin and operating margin

• The difference between profit margin and operating margin

• Variable contribution margin

Profit-Volume Analysis

• Break even analysis

• Break even chart

• How to calculate break even sales

• How to reduce the break even point

• Profit-volume chart

• Sales volume

• Target income

• Target income sales

• The components of cost-volume-profit analysis

• The cost volume formula

Leverage Analysis

• Degree of financial leverage

• Equity spread

• Financial gearing

• Financial leverage

• Trading on equity

Asset, Liability, and Equity Pricing Analysis

• Book value of debt

• Capitalization of earnings

• How to calculate the market value of a company

• How to calculate the market value of equity

• Intellectual property valuation

• The difference between forward P/E and trailing P/E

• Yield to maturity

Cost of Capital

• Cost of debt

• Cost of equity formula

• Cost of preferred stock

• Cost of retained earnings

• Incremental cost of capital

• Opportunity cost of capital

• Weighted average cost of capital

Rate of Return

• Annualized rate

• Average rate of return

• Rate of return

• Simple yield

• The accounting rate of return

• The effective rate of return

• The expected rate of return

• The required rate of return

• The simple rate of return

• The time-adjusted rate of return

Scenario Modeling

• Sensitivity analysis

• Using real options for decision making

Miscellaneous Financial Analysis Topics

• How depreciation affects cash flow

• How to calculate labor productivity

• How to calculate working capital

• Marginal analysis

• Profit maximization vs. wealth maximization

• Quantitative factors

• R&D funding decisions

• Sustainable growth rate

• Unprofitable products analysis

• What is run rate?

• Working capital analysis

Related Definitions

• Adjusted working capital

• Average total assets

• Capital investment

• Compounding period

• Contribution

• Cost of capital

• Discount rate

• Free cash flow

• Funds from operations

• Gearing

• Implicit cost

• Invested capital

• Net operating assets

• Normalized earnings

• Opportunity cost

• Organic growth

• Percent variance

• Pro rata

• Relevant range

• Trend line