Financial Metrics, KPIs & Sector Benchmarks is a structured track of 12 lessons that build a complete, interview-ready understanding of the topic. Work through them in order, then use the quiz and flashcards in each lesson to revise.
What this course covers
- The Metrics Map: Which Ratio Answers Which Business Question - A single map organising every finance metric by the question it answers.
- Liquidity & Solvency Ratios With Their Warning Thresholds - Current, quick and cash ratios, gearing, and the levels that signal trouble.
- Profitability Ratios & Margin Analysis Across the Profit and Loss - Gross, operating and net margins, and what actually moves each one.
- Return Ratios Compared: On Equity, on Capital Employed and on Assets - The return ratios, their different capital bases, and when each is the honest one.
- DuPont Analysis: The Three-Step and Five-Step Breakdowns - Decomposing return on equity both ways, and diagnosing which driver changed.
- Efficiency Ratios & the Cash Conversion Cycle in Practice - Turnover ratios and the cash conversion cycle, with sector-typical values.
- Leverage & Coverage Ratios Lenders Actually Test - Debt to earnings, interest cover and debt service cover, with covenant levels.
- Valuation Multiples and What Each One Quietly Assumes - Each multiple, its hidden assumption, and the situation where it misleads.
- The Enterprise Value Bridge from Enterprise Value to Equity Value - Walking across the bridge without dropping debt, cash, minorities or investments.
- Free Cash Flow Two Ways: To the Firm and to Equity Holders - Both free cash flow definitions derived step by step, and when to use each.
- Unit Economics for New-Age Businesses: Acquisition Cost, Lifetime Value & Burn - The metric set used to judge loss-making businesses, with worked cohort maths.
- Indian Sector Benchmarks: What Healthy Looks Like by Industry - Benchmark ranges by Indian sector, each with source and reporting period stated.