Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 3rd Edition

  • 6h 42m
  • Lita Epstein
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2014

Discover how to decipher financial reports

Especially relevant in today's world of corporate scandals and new accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report contain vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going.

Packed with new and updated information, Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 3rd Edition gives you a quick but clear introduction to financial reports–and how to decipher the information in them.

  • New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses
  • New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes
  • New information about how the analyst-corporate connection has actually changed the playing field
  • The impact of corporate communications and new technologies
  • New examples that reflect current trends
  • Updated websites and resources

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies is for investors, traders, brokers, managers, and anyone else who is looking for a reliable, up-to-date guide to reading financial reports effectively.

About the Author

Lita Epstein, MBA, helps people develop business and personal financial and investing skills. She designs and teaches online courses on bookkeeping, accounting, and starting a business. She is the author of more than 30 books, including Bookkeeping For Dummies and Trading For Dummies.

In this Book

  • Opening the Cornucopia of Reports
  • Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules
  • Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books
  • Digging into Accounting Basics
  • 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
  • Testing the Profits and Market Value
  • Looking at Liquidity
  • Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On
  • How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting
  • Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets
  • Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow
  • How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing
  • Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process
  • Digging into Government Regulations
  • Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard
  • Checking Out the Analyst–Corporation Connection
  • How Companies Communicate with Shareholders
  • Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers
  • Ten (+1) Financial Scandals That Rocked the World
  • Ten Signs That a Company's in Trouble
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