Use Python to Analyze Financial Statements
Balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are financial statements nearly every major company uses. These statements contain a plethora of information about a company’s financial position. This four-hour course will lay the groundwork to analyze financial statements in Python and understand a company’s financial position in-depth.

Compute Essential Ratios from Financial Statements
You’ll begin by learning how to read financial statements—the first step in learning how to analyze them. Next, you’ll practice computing some of the most common financial ratios from the statements using pandas – a powerful Python data manipulation and analysis tool. You’ll also learn how to use different functionalities of pandas to compare the financial ratios of companies and assess their financial health.

Learn How to Deal With Real-World Financial Data
‘Data in the wild’ is riddled with missing values. In this course, you’ll practice dealing with missing financial information through interactive exercises. You’ll also learn how to present your analysis using data visualization—another essential skill in financial analysis.

Reduce Repetitive Work with User-Defined Functions
One of the great things about using Python for analyzing financial statements compared to standard spreadsheets is that you can reduce repetitive work. By writing your own functions in Python, you’ll learn to make your analysis faster and more efficient by reducing repetition.