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How to Read a Financial Report

How to Read a Financial Report Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers, 8th Edition

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  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
  • ISBN: 9781118735848
  • Published In: January 2014
  • Format: Paperback , 240 pages
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    An updated new edition of the comprehensive guide to reading and understanding financial reports

    Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This new Eighth Editionof How to Read a Financial Report breaks through that language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. This updated edition features new information on the move toward separate financial and accounting reporting standards for private companies, the emergence of websites offering financial information, pending changes in the auditor's report language and what this means to investors, and requirements for XBRL tagging in reporting to the SEC, among other topics.

    • Makes it easy to understand what financial reports really say
    • Updated to include the latest information financial reporting standards and regulatory changes
    • Written by an author team with a combined 50-plus years of experience in financial accounting

    With this new edition of How to Read a Financial Report, investors will find everything they need to fully understand the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business.

  • Preface to the Eighth Edition

    Part I: Fundamentals

    Chapter 1: Starting With Cash Flows

    Chapter 2: Three Financial Statements

    Chapter 3:  Profit Accounting

    Chapter 4: Profit Isn’t Everything

    Part II: Connections

    Chapter 5: Sales Revenue and Accounts Receivable

    Chapter 6: Cost of Goods Sold Expense and Inventory

    Chapter 7: Inventory and Accounts Payable

    Chapter 8: Operating Expenses and Accounts Payable

    Chapter 9: Operating Expenses and Prepaid Expenses

    Chapter 10: Depreciation Expense and Property, Plant and Equipment; Intangible Assets

    Chapter 11: Accruing the Liability for Unpaid Expenses

    Chapter 12: Income Tax Expense and its Liability

    Chapter 13: Net Income and Retained Earnings; Earnings per Share (EPS)

    Part III:  Cash Flow

    Chapter 14: Cash Flow from Operating (Profit-Making) Activities

    Chapter 15: Cash Flows From Investing and Financing Activities

    Chapter 16: Growth and Decline Impacts on Cash Flow

    Part IV:  Analysis

    Chapter 17: Footnotes To Financial Statements

    Chapter 18: Financial Statement Ratios

    Chapter 19: Profit Analysis for Business Managers

    Part V:  Truthfulness

    Chapter 20: Choosing Accounting Methods and Massaging the Numbers

    Chapter 21: Audits of Financial Reports

    Chapter 22: Basic Questions; Basic Answers

    Chapter 23: Small Business Financial Reporting

    Index

  • JOHN A. TRACY is a successful financial accounting author. In addition to all eight editions of this book, he is the author of a number of books including the best-selling Accounting For Dummies.

    TAGE C. TRACY heads a consulting firm specializing in providing executive-level financial and accounting management resources on a project and/or interim basis. He has worked with companies in an array of industries ranging from web-based technology/solutions to manufacturing to retail to professional service organizations and finance. In addition, Tage has co-authored Cash Flow For Dummies and Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies with his father.

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