A Guide to Bookkeeping: Skills, Salaries, and Careers
February 11, 2025
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Intermediate level
Basic numerical skills required
Recommended experience
Intermediate level
Basic numerical skills required
Understand profitability ratios
Analyze return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE)
Apply profitability analysis to business decisions
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This course on profitability in financial accounting is designed to equip participants with the knowledge to understand and analyze key profitability ratios, such as return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE). You will learn how to apply profitability analysis to business decisions, examine profit margin and earnings per share (EPS), and gain insights into the financial performance of a company relative to its inputs like sales, debt, and equity.
This short course is part of the previous Master Track Certificate in Business Essentials. You may also be interested in a related short course from this program, "Liquidity and Solvency in Financial Accounting."
This course on profitability in financial accounting is designed to equip participants with the knowledge to understand and analyze key profitability ratios, such as return on assets (ROA) and return on equity (ROE).
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