Book description
A comprehensive guide to reading and understanding financial reports
Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This comprehensive version of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through that language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. The book features new information on the move toward separate financial and accounting reporting standards for private companies, the emergence of websites offering financial information, pending changes in the auditor's report language and what this means to investors, and requirements for XBRL tagging in reporting to the SEC, among other topics.
Makes it easy to understand what financial reports really say
Updated to include the latest information financial reporting standards and regulatory changes
Written by an author team with a combined 50-plus years of experience in financial accounting
This comprehensive edition includes an ancillary website containing valuable additional resources
With this comprehensive version of How to Read a Financial Report, investors will find everything they need to fully understand the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- List of Exhibits
- Preface
- Part One: Financial Report Fundamentals
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Part Two: Working Capital Connections
- Chapter 6: Our Case Study—Company Introductions
- Chapter 7: Sales Revenue, Trade Accounts Receivable, and Deferred Revenue
- Chapter 8: Cost(s) of Goods Sold Expense and Inventory
- Chapter 9: Inventory and Accounts Payable
- Chapter 10: Operating Expenses and Accounts Payable
- Chapter 11: Accruing Liabilities for Incurred but Unpaid Expenses
- Chapter 12: Income Tax Expense—A Liability and Asset?
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Part Three: Financial Capital Connections and Cash Flows
- Chapter 13: Our Case Study—Company Updates and Assessments
- Chapter 14: Long-Term Assets and Depreciation, Amortization, and Other Expenses
- Chapter 15: Long-Term Liabilities, Interest, and Other Expenses
- Chapter 16: Net Income, Retained Earnings, Equity, and Earnings per Share (EPS)
- Chapter 17: Cash Flow from Operating (Profit-Making) Activities
- Chapter 18: Cash Flows from Investing and Financing Activities
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Part Four: Financial Report Analysis
- Chapter 19: Expansion and Contraction Impacts on Cash Flow
- Chapter 20: What Is EBITDA and Why Is It Important?
- Chapter 21: Financial Statement Footnotes—The Devil’s in the Details
- Chapter 22: Financial Statement Ratios—Calculating and Understanding
- Chapter 23: Profit Analysis for Business Managers
- Chapter 24: Our Case Study and the Moral of the Story—The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Part Five: Financial Report Truthfulness
- About the Authors
- About the Companion Website
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Comprehensive Guide on How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers, + Website
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2014
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118735718
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