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Bookkeeping All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Bookkeeping All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Lita Epstein, John A. Tracy
August 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
608 pages
15h 28m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 7

Financial Statements and Accounting Standards

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Fleshing out the three key financial statements

Bullet Noting the difference between profit and cash flow

Bullet Finding answers in the financial statements

Bullet Knowing the nature of accounting standards

This chapter presents a brief introduction to the three primary business financial statements: the income statement, the balance sheet, and the statement of cash flows. In this chapter, you get more interesting tidbits about these three financials (as they’re sometimes called). Then, in Book 2, Chapters 46, you really get the goods. Remember when you were learning to ride a bicycle? This chapter is like getting on the bike and learning to keep your balance. In this chapter, you put on your training wheels and start riding. Then, when you’re ready, the really meaty upcoming chapters explain all 21 gears of the financial-statements bicycle, and then some.

This chapter explains that net income — the bottom-line profit of a business reported in its income statement — doesn’t produce cash flow of the same amount. Profit-making activities ...

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