Book Description
Hidden somewhere among all the numbers in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. This is especially relevant in light of the current corporate scandals.
The sixth edition of this bestselling book is designed to help anyone who works with financial reports--but has neither the time nor the need for an in-depth knowledge of accounting--cut through the maze of accounting information to find out what those numbers really mean.


Book Info
Designed as a resource for professionals and individuals, demonstrating how to make sense of financial reports that contain vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is headed. Previous edition c1994. Softcover. DLC: Financial statements.


Card catalog description
If you're someone who works with financial reports or needs to understand them - but have neither the time nor the need for an indepth knowledge of accounting - this book will help you cut through the maze of accounting information to find out what those numbers really mean. It steers you quickly and painlessly through the basic accounting concepts and line-by-line explanations of the basic financial statement. Complete with a visual guide that leads you through the intricacies of financial reporting, How to Read a Financial Report shows you how the three essential parts of every financial report - the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement - fit together and what it all means to you and your company.

ANNOTATION

This indispensable key to extracting useful information from financial reports allows non-CPAs to make sense of balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements, and shows what these mean in relation to each other. Also covers tax reform, depreciation methods, spotting fraudulent reporting, and recent FASB rulings.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

If you're someone who works with financial reports or needs to understand them - but have neither the time nor the need for an indepth knowledge of accounting - this book will help you cut through the maze of accounting information to find out what those numbers really mean. It steers you quickly and painlessly through the basic accounting concepts and line-by-line explanations of the basic financial statement. Complete with a visual guide that leads you through the intricacies of financial reporting, How to Read a Financial Report shows you how the three essential parts of every financial report - the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement - fit together and what it all means to you and your company.

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