Advanced Income Statement Analysis for Finance Professionals

This one-of-a-kind Corporate Finance course helps you confidently explain your company's financial performance during monthly management review meetings. Learn how to calculate and automate variance calculations, including price, volume, mix, and costs. Accurately present income statement variances in amounts and percentages, including changes in gross profit % and EBITDA %.

After completing the course, you will be able to:

• Calculate net sales variances (price, volume, mix impact).
• Perform gross profit variance walks (price, volume, mix, cost impact).
• Analyze gross profit % walks (drivers of GP% change).
• Conduct EBITDA and EBITDA % walks (including analysis of fixed costs).
• Create charts and visualizations to present income statement performance (e.g., GP and EBITDA waterfall charts).
• Download a fully automated file for variance and margin walk calculations (replace the source data with your own).

This is a must-have skill for all accounting and finance professionals involved in P&L analysis.