This course is designed to help learners to understand and to analyze the financial position and financial performance of a business entity by using financial statements. In addition, this course also provides learners with in-depth knowledge about the nature and the correlations between the reported items on the financial statements. More importantly, this unit of study introduces and illustrates the analytical techniques applied during the process of financial statement analysis, beginning with the analysis of industry and strategy, followed by the analysis of accounting quality in order to assess the quality of information on financial statements before analyzing an entity’s financial capacity. Afterwards, the learners are instructed with financial analysis techniques to evaluate profitability, liquidity, solvency, financial leverage, cash capacity. Finally, this unit of study delivers learners the knowledge of prospective analysis so that learners can predict an entity’s future financial positon and performance to encounter a variety of aims such as instrinsic valuation, credit-risk appraisal, and decision making.