This course provides the skills necessary to analyze the financial reports of financial services firms (thrifts, mortgage banks, commercial banks, lessors, and...  More >>

This course provides the skills necessary to analyze the financial reports of financial services firms (thrifts, mortgage banks, commercial banks, lessors, and insurers) and other firms that hold financial instruments or engage in structured financial transactions. Emphasis is placed on the critical and interrelated roles of fair value accounting information and risk and estimation sensitivity disclosures provided in those reports. Topics covered include the accounting for investment securities, securitizations, derivatives and hedging, leases, and insurance, and disclosures of interest rate risk and interest income, credit risk and losses, and market risk.

<< Less