Project Title: Financial Statement Analysis' Decision Support Tool
Student: Christine Sami Saad Ibrahim
Course: MSc Information Technology
	
Abstract:
The financial statements (or the annual reports) are legal forms, 
issued periodically by a company, obliged by the government to show 
more information about the company's financial matters. There exist 
four basic financial statements (Statements of Cash Flow, Income 
Statement, Statement of Retained Earnings and the Balance Sheet). 
Many interested parties would want to get a copy of a company's 
financial statement, to get an inside view of how the company's 
financial position really is. Whether you are a finance student, 
an accountant, a manager, or just someone who wants to investigate 
the financial position of some companies, before buying some shares 
to be part of one. Getting a copy of the company you are interested 
in, is now very simple with the help of finance websites like "Yahoo 
finance", "Google finance" or others, but knowing the indicators and 
the implications after each number in these statements is the hard 
job, and it requires a Financial Analysis to be performed. Many forms 
of Financial Analysis can be carried out to help understand these 
Financial Statements, "Ratio Analysis" is said to be the most powerful 
financial analysis technique. It helps in showing relationships 
between the numbers in the financial statements, explaining them, 
giving indicators to help understand their meaning. The financial 
statement analysis' decision support tool helps the user to understand 
more about the financial statements, through giving him access to 
any company's financial statement, then analyzing these financial 
statements, showing comments to explain these indicators. The program 
idea is as follows:

- The user imports any company's financial statements in the program 
  (With the help of yahoo finance).

- The program analyzes these statements, and then provides comments, 
  explaining the indicators behind the numbers in these financial 
  statements.

- The user only have to go through the program, reading the comments 
and building up his financial knowledge regarding his company of interest.

More information about building this program, its basis and its 
foundation are explained in the rest of the report.