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" Reading financial reports for dummies / "
by Lita Epstein.
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BL
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657117
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dltt
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| Main Entry
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Epstein, Lita.
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Reading financial reports for dummies /\ by Lita Epstein.
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| Edition Statement
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Second edition.
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| Series Statement
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--For dummies
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xviii, 361 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm.
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0470376287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780470376287 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Part I: getting down to financial reporting basics -- Recognizing business types and their tax rules -- Public or private: How company structure affects the books -- Digging into accounting basics -- Part II: checking out the big show: Annual Reports -- Exploring the anatomy of an annual report -- Balancing assets against liabilities and equity -- Using the income statement -- The statement of cash flows -- Scouring the notes to the financial statements -- Considering consolidated financial statements -- Part III: analyzing the numbers -- Testing the profits and market value -- Looking at liquidity -- Making sure the company has cash to carry on -- Part IV: understanding how companies optimize operations -- How reports help with basic budgeting -- Turning up clues in turnover and assets -- Examining cash inflow and outflow -- How companies keep the cash flowing -- Part V: the many ways companies answer to others -- Finding out how companies find errors: the auditing process -- Digging into government regulations -- Creating a global financial reoprting standard -- Checking out the analyst-corporation connection -- How companies communicate with shareholders -- Keeping score when companies play games with numbers -- Part VI: the part of tens -- Ten financial scandals that rocked the world -- Ten signs that a company's in trouble -- glossary.
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Financial statements.
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