Pamela P. Peterson & Frank J. Fabozzi 
Analysis of Financial Statements 

Revised and up to date, the Second Edition includes valuable
information that addresses questions such as:

* What is transparency and why do we care?

* How can financial statements inform investors?

* How can financial statements mislead investors?

* How has the Sarbanes-Oxley Act changed companies’ financial
disclosures?

* What should you look for in financial disclosures when judging a
company’s financial health?

* How do financial statements relate to the value of a company’s
stock?

* Why is cash flow so important to a company’s financial
health?

Throughout Analysis of Financial Statements, Second Edition, the
authors demonstrate the nuts and bolts of financial analysis by
applying the techniques to actual companies. The authors set the
stage for financial analysis in Part One with their discussions of
financial statements and the quality of financial statements. In
Part Two, they walk you through how to judge a company’s financial
health using financial disclosures in financial ratio analysis,
earnings analysis, and cash flow analysis. In Part Three, the
authors take analysis a step further by discussing how investors
and creditors can use financial statements to more effectively
assess a company’s performance and risk. Peterson and Fabozzi wrap
up this Second Edition with a set of lessons for investors and
analysts:

Lesson 1: Understand what you are looking at

Lesson 2: Read the fine print

Lesson 3: If it’s too good to be true, it may be

Lesson 4: Follow the money

Lesson 5: Understand the risks

Table of Content

Preface.

About the Authors.

PART ONE: THE BASICS.

Chapter 1. Introduction.

Chapter 2. Financial Statements.

Chapter 3. The Quality of Financial Information.

PART TWO: ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.

Chapter 4. Financial Analysis.

Chapter 5. Equity Analysis.

Chapter 6. Cash Flow Analysis.

PART THREE: APPLYING FINANCIAL ANALYSIS.

Chapter 7. Measuring Company Performance.

Chapter 8. Credit Analysis.

Chapter 9. Analysis of Risk Using Fundamentals.

Chapter 10. The Lessons We Learn.

Index.

About the author

Pamela P. Peterson (Tallahassee, FL), Ph.D. CFA is a
professor of Finance at Florida State University where she teaches
undergraduate courses in corporate finance and doctoral courses in
empirical research methods. Professor Peterson has published
articles in numerous journals including the Journal of
Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the
Journal of Banking and Finance, Financial Management,
and the Financial Analysts Journal. She and David R.
Peterson co-wrote the AIMR monograph Company Performance and
Measures of Value Added. Professor Peterson has written
collaboratively with Frank J. Fabozzi on Analysis of Financial
Statements published by Frank J. Fabozzi Associates, Capital
Budgeting, and Financial Management and Analysis,
both published by Wiley.

Frank J. Fabozzi (New Hope, PA) is the Frederick Frank
Adjunct Professor of Finance in the School of Management at Yale
University. Frank is a Fellow of the International Center for
Finance at Yale University, the editor of the Journal of
Portfolio Management, a member of Princeton University’s
Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and
Financial Engineering, and a trustee of the Black Rock complex of
closed-end funds and Guardian Life sponsored open-end mutual
funds.