Analyzing a College’s Financial Health

Analyzing a College’s Financial Health
Delta College (Saginaw Michigan)

This module has three documents:
1) Go to the latest Delta College financial statement at https://www.delta.edu/transparency/budgets-financial-statements.htmlnual.

2) A KPMG white paper describing how to assess the financial health of colleges and universities.

3) A brief summary of three methods used to assess a university or college’s financial health.

What to do:
1) Go to chapter 13 of the KPMG white paper.
2) Review the multiple ratios listed in the chapter.
3) Select six ratios of interest.
4) Go to the selected University financial report and find information you can use to run your six ratios.
5) Write up a two to three page report describing the ratios you selected, and discussing your analysis of Delta College’s financial health. The analysis should be the majority of your discussion. Remember, a ratio by means nothing in isolation. You may wish to compare the ratio to last year…or discuss a summary of what all ratios mean in aggregate.

6) Rank Delta College’s financial health on a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 is extremely strong, and 1 is extremely weak.

Please note, for a few numbers, you will need to make some assumptions and calculations to pull data useful for the required ratio data.

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