Reading Financial Reports For Dummies

ISBN-13: 9781119871361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 384 str.

Lita Epstein

Spis treści

Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with Financial Reports 5Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports 7Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules 19Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books 27Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics 45Part 2: The Big Show: Annual Reports 63Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report 65Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity 79Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement 95Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows 111Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements 123Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements 141Part 3: Analyzing the Numbers 155Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value 157Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity 175Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On 187Part 4: How Companies Optimize Operations 199Chapter 14: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets 201Chapter 15: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow 213Chapter 16: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing 223Part 5: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others 231Chapter 17: How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process 233Chapter 18: Government Regulations and Reporting Requirements 243Chapter 19: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard 255Chapter 20: Understanding the Analyst-Corporation Connection 265Chapter 21: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders 277Chapter 22: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers 291Part 6: The Part of Tens 315Chapter 23: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World 317Chapter 24: Ten Signs That a Company's in Trouble 327Glossary 333Index 341

O autorze

Lita Epstein, MBA is a financial writer who focuses on career growth and business topics. She earned her MBA from Emory University and her BA from Rutgers University. Lita has written more than 40 books, including the previous editions of Reading Financial Reports For Dummies.