Reading Financial Reports for Dummies

A Reference for the Rest of Us! - Understand the bottom line and read between the lines to make better investment decisions

Lita Epstein - Collection For Dummies

362 pages, parution le 26/01/2005

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Résumé

Simple strategies for measuring a company's financial health

Decipher the jargon and read financial reports like a pro

Whether you're a serious investor or hold a few shares in the company you work for, reading financial reports is a vital way to keep tabs on a company's performance. This clear and friendly guide will help you wade through the numbers to see what's really going on - so you can make smarter and more profitable investment choices.

Discover how to:

Make sense of balance sheets

Find the figures that tell the tale

Test the numbers with simple formulas

Recognize red flags in the footnotes

Understand deceptive accounting practices

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Tear-out cheat sheet

Top ten lists

A dash of humor and fun

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L'auteur - Lita Epstein

Lita Epstein is a writer and a designer and teacher of online financial courses, as well as the coauthor of Trading For Dummies.

Sommaire

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 Short: 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 Resource
Appendixes
- Appendix A: Financial Statements
- Appendix B: Glossary

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Lita Epstein
Collection	For Dummies
Parution	26/01/2005
Nb. de pages	362
Format	18,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	576g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780764577338
ISBN13	978-0-7645-7733-8