Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies

Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics.

Chapter 1: Discovering What Reports Reveal.

Chapter 2: Recognising Different Business Types.

Chapter 3: Discovering How Company Structure Affects the Books.

Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics.

Part II: Understanding Published Information: Annual Reports.

Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report.

Chapter 6: Balancing Assets Against Liabilities and Equity.

Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement.

Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows.

Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements.

Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements.

Part III: Analysing the Numbers.

Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value.

Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity.

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

Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimise Operations.

Chapter 14: Using Basic Budgeting.

Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets.

Chapter 16: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow.

Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing.

Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Stakeholders.

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

Chapter 19: Checking Out the Analyst?Company Connection.

Chapter 20: How Companies Soothe the Shareholders.

Chapter 21: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 22: Ten Financial Crises That Rocked the World.

Chapter 23: Ten Signs That a Company?s in Trouble.

Chapter 24: Ten Top-Notch Online Resources.

Part VII: Appendixes.

Appendix A: Financial Statements.

Appendix B: Glossary.

Index.