Reading Financial Reports For Dummies
3rd Edition
Published on 12. December 2013
384 pages
978-1-118-77506-6 (ISBN)
Description
Discover how to decipher financial reports
Especially relevant in today's world of corporate scandals andnew accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report containvitally important information about where a company has been andwhere it is going.
Packed with new and updated information, Reading FinancialReports For Dummies, 3rd Edition gives you a quick but clearintroduction to financial reports-and how to decipher theinformation in them.
* New information on the separate accounting and financialreporting standards for private/small businesses versuspublic/large businesses
* New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatorychanges
* New information about how the analyst-corporate connection hasactually changed the playing field
* The impact of corporate communications and newtechnologies
* 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 areliable, up-to-date guide to reading financial reportseffectively.
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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.
Content
Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Reading Financial Reports5
Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports 7
Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules 19
Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects theBooks 27
Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics 41
Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports 57
Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report 59
Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity73
Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement 89
Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows 105
Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements119
Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements137
Part III: Analyzing the Numbers 149
Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value 151
Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity 169
Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On 179
Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations191
Chapter 14: How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting 193
Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets 203
Chapter 16: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow 215
Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing 225
Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others 233
Chapter 18: Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The AuditingProcess 235
Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations 245
Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard257
Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst-CorporationConnection 267
Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders 279
Chapter 23: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers293
Part VI: The Part of Tens 315
Chapter 24: Ten (+1) Financial Scandals That Rocked the World317
Chapter 25: Ten Signs That a Company's in Trouble 327
Glossary 333
Index 341
