CHAPTER 4

Financial analysis

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.’

Ron Lewis

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In Chapter 3, we examined the three primary financial statements (balance sheet, profit & loss account – or income statement – and cash flow statement) and how they interact. Now that we have established what is in each of the statements, this chapter will help us to read the financial statements.

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