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Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 4th Edition

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 4th Edition

Author: Lita Epstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119871361
Published In: March 2022
Format: Paperback , 384 pages
Jurisdiction: U.S. ? Disclaimer:
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Your personal roadmap to becoming fluent in financial reports

At first glance, the data in financial reports might seem confusing or overwhelming. But, with the right guide at your side, you can learn to translate even the thickest and most complex financial reports into plain English.

In Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, you'll move step-by-step through each phase of interpreting and understanding the data in a financial report, learning the key accounting and business fundamentals as you go. The book includes clear explanations of basic and advanced topics in finance, from the difference between private and public companies to cash flow analysis.

In this book, you'll also find:

Full coverage of how to analyze annual reports, including their balance sheets, income statements, statements of cash flow, and consolidated statements
Real-world case studies and financial statement examples from companies like Mattel and Hasbro
Strategies for analyzing financial reports to reveal opportunities for operations optimization

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies is a can't-miss resource for early-career investors, traders, brokers, and business leaders looking to improve their financial literacy with a reliable, accurate, and easy-to-follow financial handbook.

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Reading Financial Reports 5

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 the Books 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 Equity 73

Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement 89

Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows 105

Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements 119

Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements 137

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 Operations 191

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 Auditing Process 235

Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations 245

Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard 257

Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst–Corporation Connection 267

Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders 279

Chapter 23: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers 293

Part VI: The Part of Tens 315

Chapter 24: Ten (+1) Financial Scandals That Rocked the World 317

Chapter 25: Ten Signs That a Company’s in Trouble 327

Glossary 333

Index 341

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, includingBookkeeping For Dummies and Trading For Dummies.