Ebook: Reading Financial Reports For Dummies

Part I: getting down to financial reporting basics -- Opening the cornucopia of reports -- Recognizing different business types -- 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 -- Using 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 -- Checking out the analyst-corporation connection -- How companies soothe the 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 -- Ten top-notch online resources.