Beyond the Basics: Financial Ratios You Might Be Overlooking

Overview

Overview: Understanding your company's financial health requires more than just traditional metrics. This webinar is designed to reveal deeper insights through advanced, underutilized financial ratios. In this session, accounting and finance professionals will explore metrics such as operating leverage, free cash flow yield, and margin of safety-tools that go beyond standard ratios to deliver nuanced perspectives on profitability, risk exposure, and operational efficiency.

This event may be a rebroadcast of a live event and the instructor will be available to answer your questions during the event.

Prerequisites

A basic understanding of financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement) and familiarity with common financial ratios (e.g., current ratio, return on assets) is recommended to maximize the learning experience.

Objectives

After attending this presentation, you will be able to...

• Apply financial ratios to assess profitability, operational efficiency, and risk exposure.
• Calculate key metrics, including operating leverage, margin of safety, and free cash flow yield, to evaluate financial performance.
• Analyze cost behavior to determine its impact on break-even points and financial stability.
• Differentiate between traditional ratios and underutilized metrics for a more comprehensive financial analysis.
• Select appropriate financial ratios to compare company performance and support strategic decision-making.

Highlights

The major topics that will be covered in this course include:

• Understanding Cost Behavior and Its Impact on Decision-Making
• Contribution Margin and Break-Even Analysis
• Margin of Safety and Its Role in Risk Management
• Operating Leverage and Financial Sensitivity
• Analyzing Asset Turnover for Operational Efficiency
• Cash Conversion Cycle and Working Capital Insights
• Free Cash Flow Yield as a Valuation Tool