This classic volume presents the conceptual background and analytical tools necessary to understand and interpret financial statements. The emphasis throughout is on the evaluation of financial statements and their usefulness for business decision-making—rather than on how the financial statements are constructed. Straightforward, understandable, and accessible--regardless of readers' background--it orients them toward what they will actually encounter in practice. By emphasizing how to solve unstructured problems and how to use accounting information for decision-making, it helps them learn how to think and reason through complex, real-world situations. Includes mini-cases using the financial statements of actual companies. The Balance Sheet; The Income Statement and Statement of Stockholders' Equity; Statement of Cash Flows; The Analysis of Financial Statements; A Guide to Earnings Quality; The Analysis of Segmental Data; Understanding Bank Financial Statements. For investors and others who make decisions based on the analysis of financial statements.

Understanding Financial Statements

Business & Money

Ormiston, Aileen

Fraser, Lyn M.

Accounting

Pearson Education/Prentice-Hall

A supplementary text for a variety of Business courses, including Financial Statement Analysis, Principles of Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Investments, Personal Finance, and Financial Planning and Analysis. Understanding Financial Statements, retains its reputation for readability, concise coverage, and accessibility while incorporating the many new requirements and changes in accounting reporting and standards. The text gives students the conceptual background and analytical tools necessary to understand and interpret business financial statements. Its ultimate goal is to improve students' ability to translate financial statement numbers into a meaningful map for business decisions and thus enable each student to approach financial statements with enhanced confidence.

Lyn Fraser

Finance

PRENTICE/HALL

A supplementary text for a variety of Business courses, including Financial Statement Analysis, Investments, Personal ¿Finance, and Financial Planning and Analysis ¿ An Analytical Approach to Understanding and Interpreting Business Financial Statements ¿ Understanding Financial Statements improves the student’s ability to translate a financial statement into a meaningful map for business decisions. The material covered in each chapter helps students approach financial statements with enhanced confidence and understanding of a firm’s historical, current, and prospective financial condition and performance. The Eleventh Edition includes new case studies based on existing companies and enhanced learning tools to help students quickly grasp and apply the materials. Fraser and Ormiston presents material in an engaging fashion that helps readers make sense of complex financial information, leading to intelligent (and profitable!) decision-making.

Fraser, Lyn

Pearson

Learn how to interpret companys key performance indicators at a basic ad sell as advance level !

Understanding Financial Statements, Global Edition

Pearson/Education

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Understanding Financial Statements

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Understanding Financial Statements

Understanding Financial Statements

Understanding Financial Statements, Global Edition

Understanding Financial Statements, Global Edition