Ebook: Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies

Company financial reports are a key resource for investors, helping them uncover priceless information about a company's profitability, or lack thereof, from the figures as well as through other non-monetary indicators. Details of lawsuits, changes in accounting methods, liquidations, and mergers and acquisitions can all be ways of detecting red flags if you know where to look. However the jargon and financial footnotes in financial reports can be difficult to decipher, and this For Dummies guide on the subject will help readers to understand company reports and make sensible investment choices.;Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies; Dedication; Authors' Acknowledgements; Contents at a Glance; Table of Contents; Introduction; About This Book; Conventions Used in This Book; What You're Not to Read; Foolish Assumptions; How This Book Is Organised; Icons Used in This Book; Where to Go from Here; Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics; Chapter 1: Discovering What Reports Reveal; Finding Out What Financial Reporting Is For; Looking at Different Types of Reporting; Dissecting the Annual Report for Shareholders; Understanding How the Number Crunchers Are Kept in Line.