Financial information works much like a road atlas. A complex map
of the interstate freeway system is of little value if you simply want
to figure out how to get across town. This book has been designed
to narrow your search for valid and useful information; to serve as
an atlas to direct yourself through a maze of financial one-way streets,
dead ends, and roads under construction; and to provide shortcuts
and fast routes to the answers you need and want.
The difference between how corporations report information
and how they should report it is at the heart of fundamental analy-
sis. We need accurate, complete, and reliable information; it would
also ...