Financial Statement Analysis & Reporting for Business Leaders
Read and use your three core statements — and use AI to speed up analysis while checking every number.
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The course at a glance
Build skills you can put to work.
This hands-on workshop builds real fluency with the balance sheet, income statement and cash-flow statement — what each shows and how the three connect. You will compute and interpret the key ratios and trends that matter for your business, then turn them into a one-page monthly performance summary. In the second half you use AI to speed up the analysis — summarizing results, explaining variances and drafting narrative — on the work AI assistant you already have, with a simple data rule: never put confidential company figures into an AI tool without your organization's authorization. Because AI can produce confident figures that are wrong, the session closes with a verification drill: trace every AI-generated number to its source, recheck scale, units, period and arithmetic, and leave with a written checklist for reviewing AI-assisted analysis. Public sessions work on sanitized Business Logix case statements; private sessions can work on your organization's own numbers.
Course objective
Help participants leave able to read the three core statements and explain how they connect, compute and interpret key ratios and trends, assemble a one-page monthly performance summary, and use an AI assistant to speed up analysis while verifying every AI-generated figure against the source with a written review checklist.
Who is this course for?
Owners, managers, controllers and finance staff at organizations with 10 or more employees. Pitched at a Foundational–Intermediate level — a working familiarity with your company's numbers helps; no accounting credential is required.
What we'll cover
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What you'll take away
Learning outcomes
Before you join
Come prepared
Materials & tools
Bring the following materials and tools:
- Laptop
- Spreadsheet software
- Access to a work AI assistant (recommended)
Prerequisites
No prerequisites are required for this course.
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