Fundamental Analysis Tutorials

Learn the accounting concepts that will help you to dig into to the details to find earnings manipulation.

In this feature, we take an in-depth look at the various techniques that determine the value and investment quality of companies from an industry perspective.

Learn about profit margin analysis, effective tax rate, return on assets, return on equity and return on capital employed.

Learn about the debt ratio, debt-equity ratio, capitalization ratio, interest coverage ratio and the cash flow to debt ratio.

Learn about the fixed-asset turnover, sales/revenue per employee, operating cycle and dividend payout ratio.

Learn about the current ratio, quick ratio, cash ratio and cash conversion cycle.

Learn about the operating cash flow to sales ratio, free cash flow to operating cash flow ratio and free cash flow coverage ratio.

Learn about per share data, price/book value ratio, price/cash flow ratio, price/earnings ratio, price/sales ratio, dividend yield and the enterprise multiple.

Learn the science behind irrational decision making and how you can avoid it.

Learn about the foundation upon which technical analysis is based.

Learn this easy-to-understand technique of analyzing a company's financial statements and reports.

Discover the simplicity of this important valuation metric. We reveal its underlying ideas and examine each of its components.

Learn to put the CB data sets to trading use. Each chapter takes you through one of the board's benchmark indicators or surveys, their significance and their applications.

Learn what the price/earnings ratio really means and how you should use it to value companies.

Here you can learn about some of the indicators that traders and brokers use to determine the direction and strength of the market's present trend.

Learn about six common types of financial tables and figure out how to interpret them.

Learn some background on mutual funds and what factors can be used to assess their investment quality.

Learn the importance of the risk-return relationship in selecting a mutual fund.

With mutual funds, it is crucial to look at all components of investment quality and not performance alone.

Independent fund investment research is the key to finding investment quality in a mutual fund.

Check in here for an overview of mutual fund investment quality and how to find it.