(Course # CDS 3)
By John B. Kitto

This course is designed to give you 1) a fundamental understanding of financial and accounting principles, terms, techniques and practices, and 2) the tools necessary to evaluate and financially justify your own projects to corporate management.  It provides you with instructions on how to read and understand financial statements, balance sheets, income statements, costs and accounting reports.  Topics include how to perform financial analyses by using ratios, profitability, liquidity, leverage, activity ratios, returns on sales, gross margin percentages, and returns on total assets. Financial earnings and forecasting are presented.