How to Read a Financial Report
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A valuable resource for translating financial reports into real, meaningful information for investorsFinancial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet the statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign...
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A valuable resource for translating financial reports into real, meaningful information for investors
Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet the statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only other accountants can understand. This Seventh Edition of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report breaks through the language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. It helps readers get a sure-handed grip on the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business. New information found in this updated edition include: discussions of the transition to international accounting and financial reporting standards; reflections on financial reporting and auditing in the post-Enron era; detailed illustrations that explain connections between the three financial statements; and much more.
John A. Tracy, CPA (Boulder, CO), is an award-winning Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His other books include The Fast Forward MBA in Finance, Second Edition (978-0-471-20285-1), Accounting for Dummies, Fourth Edition (978-0-470-24600-9), and Accounting Workbook for Dummies (978-0-471-79145-4). Tracy has also served on the board of directors of a bank, and has taught executive development programs.
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How to Read a Financial Report Seventh EditionFinancial 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 Seventh Edition of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through the language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. The book helps you get a sure-handed grip on the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business.
Here's what's new in the Seventh Edition:
Discussion of the transition to international accounting and financial reporting standards
A streamlined centerpiece exhibit used throughout the book to explain connections between the three financial statements
An integrated section on analyzing profit, cash flow, and solvency for investors, lenders, and managers (now Part Two in this edition)
Reflection on financial reporting and auditing in the post-Enron era
"What distinguishes Tracy's efforts from other manuals is an innovative structure that visually ties together elements of the balance sheet and income statement by tracing where and how a line item in one affects an entry in another."
--Inc.
"An excellent job of showing how to separate the wheat from the chaff without choking in the process."
--The Miami Herald
"A wonderful book organized logically and written clearly. For a Fool to be an effective investor, she has to know her way around a financial statement. This book will help you develop that skill. It's the clearest presentation of many accounting concepts that this Fool has seen."
--Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool
A valuable resource for translating financial reports into real, meaningful information for investors
Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet the statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only other accountants can understand. This Seventh Edition of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report breaks through the language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. It helps readers get a sure-handed grip on the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business. New information found in this updated edition include: discussions of the transition to international accounting and financial reporting standards; reflections on financial reporting and auditing in the post-Enron era; detailed illustrations that explain connections between the three financial statements; and much more.
John A. Tracy, CPA (Boulder, CO), is an award-winning Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His other books include The Fast Forward MBA in Finance, Second Edition (978-0-471-20285-1), Accounting for Dummies, Fourth Edition (978-0-470-24600-9), and Accounting Workbook for Dummies (978-0-471-79145-4). Tracy has also served on the board of directors of a bank, and has taught executive development programs.
Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet the statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only other accountants can understand. This Seventh Edition of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report breaks through the language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. It helps readers get a sure-handed grip on the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business. New information found in this updated edition include: discussions of the transition to international accounting and financial reporting standards; reflections on financial reporting and auditing in the post-Enron era; detailed illustrations that explain connections between the three financial statements; and much more.
John A. Tracy, CPA (Boulder, CO), is an award-winning Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. His other books include The Fast Forward MBA in Finance, Second Edition (978-0-471-20285-1), Accounting for Dummies, Fourth Edition (978-0-470-24600-9), and Accounting Workbook for Dummies (978-0-471-79145-4). Tracy has also served on the board of directors of a bank, and has taught executive development programs.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „How to Read a Financial Report “
Part I. Components and Connections in Financial Statements1. Starting with Cash Flows
2. The Three Financial Statements
3. Profit Isn't Everything
4. Sales Revenue and Accounts Receivable
5. Cost of Goods Sold Expense and Inventory
6. Inventory and Accounts Payable
7. Operating Expenses and Accounts Payable
8. Operating Expenses and Prepaid Expenses
9. A Unique Expense: Depreciation
10. Accruing the Liability for Unpaid Expenses
11. Income Tax Expense and Its Liability
12. Net Income and Retained Earnings; Earnings Per Share
13. Cash Flow from Operating (Profit-making) Activities
14. Cash Flow from Investing and Financing Activities
15. Footnotes to Financial Statements
Part II. Financial Statement Analysis
16. Impact of Growth and Decline on Cash Flow
17. Financial Statement Ratios
18. Profit Analysis for Business Managers
Part III. Reliability of Financial Reports
19. Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards
20. Accounting Methods and Massaging the Numbers
21. Audits of Financial Reports in Post-Enron Era
22. Parting Comments
Index
Autoren-Porträt von John A. Tracy
John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting, Emeritus at the Leeds School of Business of the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has served as a staff accountant at Ernst & Young.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: John A. Tracy
- 2009, 7. Auflage., 202 Seiten, Maße: 16,8 x 24,9 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Wiley & Sons
- ISBN-10: 0470405309
- ISBN-13: 9780470405307
Sprache:
Englisch
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