Interpreting Financial and Accounting Information, 2nd edition

Part one: The need to regulate financial reporting

1. The regulatory framework and the role of International Financial Reporting Standards

2. The Conceptual Framework for Financial Reporting

Part two: Understanding and interpreting financial statements and reports

3. Presentation of single entity published financial statements

4. Other contents and features of published financial statements

5. Accounting policies based on IFRS 

6. Financial reporting by groups of companies 

7. Analysis of published financial statements 

Part three: Sources of finance, their associated risks and returns

8. Working capital management

9. Sources of short-term finance

10. Financial markets and the identification of financing needs

Part four: The cost of capital and capital structure

12. The cost of capital and capital structure

13. Project appraisal techniques

14. Risk assessment in investment appraisal techniques

15. Company analysis and company valuation methods

Part five: Interpretation and evaluation of accounting and financial information

16. Interpretation and evaluation of accounting and financial information