Lita Epstein 
Reading Financial Reports For Dummies 

Discover how to decipher financial reports

Especially relevant in today’s world of corporate scandals andnew accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report containvitally important information about where a company has been andwhere it is going.

Packed with new and updated information, Reading Financial Reports For Dummies, 3rd Edition gives you a quick but clearintroduction to financial reports-and how to decipher theinformation in them.
* New information on the separate accounting and financialreporting standards for private/small businesses versuspublic/large businesses
* New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatorychanges
* New information about how the analyst-corporate connection hasactually changed the playing field
* The impact of corporate communications and newtechnologies
* New examples that reflect current trends
* Updated websites and resources

Reading Financial Reports For Dummies is for investors, traders, brokers, managers, and anyone else who is looking for areliable, up-to-date guide to reading financial reportseffectively.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Introduction 1

Part I: Getting Started with Reading Financial Reports5

Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports 7

Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules 19

Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books 27

Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics 41

Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports 57

Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report 59

Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity73

Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement 89

Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows 105

Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements119

Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements137

Part III: Analyzing the Numbers 149

Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value 151

Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity 169

Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On 179

Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations191

Chapter 14: How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting 193

Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets 203

Chapter 16: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow 215

Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing 225

Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others 233

Chapter 18: Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process 235

Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations 245

Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard257

Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection 267

Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders 279

Chapter 23: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers293

Part VI: The Part of Tens 315

Chapter 24: Ten (+1) Financial Scandals That Rocked the World317

Chapter 25: Ten Signs That a Company’s in Trouble 327

Glossary 333

Index 341

Sobre o autor

Lita Epstein, MBA, helps people develop business and personal financial and investing skills. She designs and teaches online courses on bookkeeping, accounting, starting a business, and finance and investing for women. She is the author of more than 40 books, including Bookkeeping For Dummies, Stock Charts For Dummies, and Trading For Dummies.