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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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Two colleagues reviewing printed bar, trend-line and pie-chart statements at a sunlit office table with a laptop.
Duration 4 hours
Language English
Level Beginner
Prerequisites None required

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

Key topics

    The three core statements and how they connect
    Key ratios and trends
    Building a monthly performance summary
    Using AI to analyze and explain results
    Verifying AI-generated figures against the source

What you'll take away

Learning outcomes

    Read the three core statements and explain how they connect
    Compute and interpret key ratios and trends for a business
    Build a one-page monthly performance summary
    Use an AI assistant to analyze and explain results on company figures
    Verify AI-generated figures against source documents with a written review checklist

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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