Interpreting Financial Statements & Measures

Learn what your financial statements and ratios mean and how you can use them to improve your farm decision making:

• Learn to use your financial statements in day-to-day management
• Understand how to interpret common financial statements
• Acquire a powerful skill set to enhance your farm business
• Gain self confidence in the area of finance

If you don’t already have an understanding of financial statements and measures and how to prepare them, we recommend clicking the links below to first complete the following modules:

1. Accounting and Record Keeping
2. Developing Financial Statements
3. Developing Financial Ratios & Measures

This course is STEP 2 of the Farm Financial Management course category. To return to the main course page CLICK HERE.

The course content in this section is built upon and incorporates course materials from the the Interpreting Financial Statements & Measures (IFSaM) series developed by the Center for Farm Financial Management with funding provided by USDA-NIFA.
Interpreting Financial Statements & Measures, Dale Nortdquist, Robert Craven, and Pauline Van Nurden, UMN-CFFM (April 2021)