Advanced Financial Statement Analysis

When most finance professionals calculate a public company’s value, they tend to focus on cash flows. Prof. Matt Wieland, who teaches the program on Advanced Financial Statement Analysis at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance, argues valuation methods based on earnings are at least as valuable as cash flow based models. Why earnings matter in valuation“What…

Participants tell us about inspiring days full of knowledge and networking opportunities. “A program that everyone should follow” and “the study material contained exactly the depth I was looking for.” These are just two comments from participants in programs at the Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF).  Ardi Pratama from Indonesia followed the two-day program Understanding Global…

In the footnotes of financial reports – for example under ‘earnings management’ – one can find information that relates to billions of Euros Or is it only a strange quirk if a report shows questionable numbers? This is what the American Professor of Accounting Jim Wahlen, who teaches at Indiana University, tries to explain in…