Finance Fundamentals is the technical half of investing. It teaches you to read a company’s financial statements the way an analyst at an investment bank or a private equity firm reads them, and to turn those numbers into a defensible view of what a business is actually worth.

You start with the three financial statements and how they lock together into one integrated view of the business: the income statement, which shows what the company earned; the balance sheet, which shows what it owns and owes; and the cash flow statement, which shows the real cash that moved. You’ll learn to separate accounting profit from actual cash, because a company can report a profit and still be consuming cash, and knowing the difference is where most beginners err.

From there you build the professional toolkit one piece at a time: normalising the statements so one-off items stop distorting the picture, telling enterprise value apart from equity value, reading valuation multiples for what they truly say, and finally building a DCF model from a blank page. By the end you can open any company’s filings and value it yourself, using the same methods that price billion-dollar deals.