Business Skills All-in-One For Dummies

Index

A

1. abstract nouns, 480–481
2. acceptance criteria (scope statement), 284
3. Account setting (LinkedIn Settings & Privacy page), 376
4. accountability (financial reporting), 98
5. accounting
   1. balance sheet
      1. accounting equation, 56
      2. book values, 77–78
      3. capital, 74–76
      4. current and quick ratios, 63–64
      5. current assets and liabilities, 62–63
      6. debt, 74–76
      7. liquidity, 61–64
      8. market values, 77–78
      9. overview, 55–56
      10. presenting, 57–61
      11. relative sizes of assets and liabilities, 68–74
      12. solvency, 61–64
      13. transactions, 64–67
   2. financial reporting
      1. acid-test ratio, 113–114
      2. auditor’s report, 118–121
      3. book value, 110
      4. book value per share, 111–112
      5. cash flow ratios, 116
      6. current ratio, 112–113
      7. dividend yield ratio, 109–110
      8. earnings per share, 106–108
      9. footnotes, 117
      10. gross margin ratio, 105–106
      11. investment options, 99–101
      12. market value, 110
      13. overview, 97–98
      14. P/E ratio, 108–109
      15. private companies, 101
      16. profit ratio, 106
      17. public companies, 101–102
      18. ratios, 102–117
      19. ROA ratio, 114–115
      20. ROE ratio, 112
      21. rules for, 98–99
   3. financial statements
      1. accounting and financial reporting standards, 24–29
      2. accuracy of, 22–23
      3. balance sheet, 13–17
      4. cash distributions from profit, 24
      5. cash flow, 21–22
      6. evaluating profit performance, 20–21
      7. income statement, 10–13
      8. overview, 7–10
      9. statement of cash flows, 17–19
      10. statement of changes in shareowners’ equity, 20
   4. income statement
      1. active reader of, 38–40
      2. assets, 45–47
      3. deconstructing profit, 40–45
      4. expenses, 47–51
      5. gross margin, 37
      6. investment business, 35–36
      7. liabilities, 45, 47–51
      8. minus signs, 36
      9. misconceptions, ...