In: Finance
1)Describe in your own words what you learned providing an explanation of 200 words of Using financial statement information?
1) A financial statement can provide a lot of relevant information on the operations of a company, it's revenue models and the kind of growth that the company has achieved in the past. It also shows its cost structure and the profitability metrics of a business. By analysing the historical financial statements, one can also understand if the company is on a growth projectors or its profits are going down. So through financial statements analysis, a sense of business performance can be ascertained which can be used to make decisions regarding investment in the business or not.
2) External financial sources are an important part to drive business growth and ensure that firms have access to finances apart from internal accruals to fund their growth. So for a firm to have continued growth, it is important that firm keeps on investing in assets to expand the business and in order to be not only depend on internal accruals, then access to external funds through loans from banks or equity funding through issue of shares is very essential for a firm.