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Financial analysis

Reading a company's financial results to judge its profit, cash and financial health and explain what drives them.

Good work shows: Calculates key ratios correctly; compares results with past periods or peers; explains the main drivers of change.

Financial analysis is one of the analysis skills on FinderK.

The job simulations and Skill Paths below include work that is checked for this skill. You do the work in an original fictional company and get feedback on it.

Job simulations

The bakery loan request

Credit analyst at Aldwick Business Bank

About 65 minutes. Included in Plus.

A well run bakery wants a loan for a second oven and a bigger overdraft. The reported figures pass the bank's tests easily. Normalise them, test the request against the credit policy, find a structure that works and hold the line when a contract arrives that does not count.

Skills: Normalise a business's earnings for one-off items; Test a lending request against a credit policy; Recommend a structure that meets policy without losing the customer; Judge whether new evidence changes a credit decision

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