Chapter 2: A quick guide to financials
Valuation of listed securities and resource projects relies on the analysis of financial data. For those readers unfamiliar with the process it is important to provide a simple overview of the various parameters that make up the numbers. This should help make the detailed sections that follow more meaningful.
The principal aim of this type of analysis is to effectively forecast the future financial performance of the company, which most often relates to the future financial performance of the company’s resource project(s). Each project needs to be categorised into its major financial components and, as more advanced studies are undertaken, the level of detail will increase substantially. The major financial ...