Reading Financial Reports for Dummies

Name: Reading Financial Reports for Dummies
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ISBN: 9780764577338

ISBN-10: 0764577336

ISBN-13: 9780764577338

Edition: 2004

Authors: Lita Epstein

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This text will help readers receive a quick but clear and thorough introduction to financial reports and learn how to decipher the information in them in order to make sound financial decisions.

Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/24/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 7.30" wide x 9.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.188



Introduction



Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics



Opening the Cornucopia of Reports



Recognizing Different Business Types



How Company Structure Affects the Books



Digging Into Accounting Basics



Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports



Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report



Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity



Using the Income Statement



The Statement of Cash Flows



Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements



Considering Consolidated Financial Statements



Analyzing the Numbers



Testing the Profits and Market Value



Looking at Liquidity



Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On



Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations



Using Basic Budgeting



Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets



Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow



How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing



The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others



Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process



Digging Into Government Regulations



Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection



How Companies Soothe the Shareholders



Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers



The Part of Tens



Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World



Ten Signs That a Company's in Trouble



Ten Top-Notch Online Resources



Appendixes



Financial Statements



Glossary


Index