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AFM 492Financial Statement Analysis

Faculty
Arts
Last listed
Spring 2022

No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2022. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.

In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2022; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.

This course introduces fundamental tools of analysis and valuation that are widely used in a variety of financial careers.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: AFM 291, 391 and (AFM 274 or AFM 275/AFM 372/ACTSC 391); Accounting and Financial Management, Computing and Financial Management, or Mathematics/Chartered Professional Accountancy students

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  • The structure of this course does require you do to the readings, but full understanding after the midterm is limited to the group work.

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  • Choose your groups for the group projects wisely as they will make or break your mark in the course. Also do problems from the textbook to prepare for the midterm, as this is the only assessment which you could potentially not do too well in.

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Discussed on r/uwaterloo

5 posts and comments in 4 threads mention AFM 492, April 2016 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.

Winter 2020

Why is FARM not apart of SAF? 1 point, 0 comments

“I was just wondering if anyone knows why the Mathematics/Financial Analysis and Risk Management program is not apart of the School of Accounting and Finance?”

u/FARNer411: “The program is not run by anyone from the School of Accounting and Finance (SAF) (which is part of the Arts faculty), it is run and created by members of the Math/Business department of the Math …”

u/financefarmingfarmer: “… 121 = comm 101 Financial Analysis specialization: Afm 425 = Matbus 471 Afm 291 = comm 321 Afm 492 = comm 421 Afm 361 = comm 433 Risk Management specialization: Afm 425 = matbus 471 Essentially for someone doing the FA spec. …”

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Winter 2018

Spring 2018 Elective 4 points, 2 comments

u/tousen750: “… Benefit Analysis and Project Evaluation 3) HRM 200 - Basic Human Resources Management 4) AFM 492 - Financial Statement Analysis Out of all the courses I am most interested in AFM 492, but the prof seems to be waay to hard. …”

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Fall 2017

PSA: UWCourseLinker back up, disabled by default, call with [[course code]] 39 points, 31 comments

u/RayDWatson: “Testing all course codes 1/61: [[ACC604]] [[ACC605]] [[ACC606]] [[ACC607]] [[ACC608]] [[ACC609]] [[ACC610]] [[ACC611]] [[ACC620]] [[ACC621]] [[ACC622]] [[ACC623]] [[ACC624]] [[ACC625]] [[ACC626]] …”

u/RayDWatson: “… [[AFM478]] [[AFM479]] [[AFM480]] [[AFM481]] [[AFM482]] [[AFM483]] [[AFM484]] [[AFM491]] [[AFM492]] [[AFM501]] [[AFM502]] [[AFM503]] [[AFM504]] [[AHS100]] [[AHS107]] [[AHS150]] [[AHS600]] [[AHS782]] [[AMATH231]] [[AMATH242]] [[AMATH250]] [[AMATH251]] [[AMATH261]] [[AMATH271]] …”

u/UWCourseLinker: “… AFM 484 - Advanced Management Control Systems AFM 491 - Advanced Financial Accounting AFM 492 - Financial Statement Analysis AFM 501 - Contemporary Issues in Assurance and Accounting AFM 502 - Control Systems in a Computer Environment AFM 503 - Issues and Problems in Accounting …”

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Winter 2016

Do you use UWFlow? Let me know what features you want built! 63 points, 41 comments

“Hi Reddit, I'm the maintainer of Flow, and want to know what features you want built. I'm also always looking for people who'd like to get involved, as Flow is entirely open-source. Let me know!”

u/lucky94: “… Right now, if I type "stat 4", I get an assortment of random courses like AFM492 and CS485 as well as a bunch of stat courses in no particular order, whereas I actually want a list of STAT courses sorted by course code. …”

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