Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics.

Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports.

Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules.

Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books.

Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics.

Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports.

Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report.

Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity.

Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement.

Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows.

Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements.

Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements.

Part III: Analyzing the Numbers.

Chapter 11: Testing the Profi ts and Market Value.

Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity.

Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On.

Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations.

Chapter 14: How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting.

Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets.

Chapter 16: Examining Cash Infl ow and Outflow.

Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing.

Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others.

Chapter 18: Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process.

Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations.

Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard.

Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection.

Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders.

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

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 24: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World.

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

Glossary.

Index.