Whether youre a manager seeking to prepare a financial report, or an investor hoping to analyse one, unless youre financially savvy the figures and footnotes involved can be intimidating and tedious. Taking you step-by-step through the finer points of financial reports, this straightforward guide will help you get to grips with the most accurate way to wade through the numbers, judge a companys performance, and make profitable investment decisions. This UK Adaptation focuses on the UK financial market, with the FTSE index as the focus of the book.Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies includes: Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics Chapter 1: Finding Out What Financial Reporting is for Chapter 2: Recognising Different Business Types Chapter 3: How Company Structure Affects the Books Chapter 4: Digging Into Accounting Basics Part II: Understanding Published Information: Annual Reports Chapter 5: Exploring an Annual Report Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity Chapter 7: Using the Profit and Loss Account Chapter 8: The Sta Cash Flow Statement Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements Chapter 10: Considering the 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: Digging Into Government Regulations Chapter 20: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection Chapter 21: How Companies Soothe the Shareholders Chapter 22: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers Part VI: The Part of Tens Chapter 23: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World Chapter 24: Ten Signs That a Companys in Trouble Chapter 25: Ten Top-Notch Online Resources
Book Details:
- Author: Ken Langdon
- ISBN: 9781119997856
- Year Published: 2010
- Pages: 402
- BISAC: BUS036000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Investments & Securities / General
About the Book and Topic:
Whether youre a manager seeking to prepare a financial report, or an investor hoping to analyse one, unless youre financially savvy the figures and footnotes involved can be intimidating and tedious. Taking you step-by-step through the finer points of financial reports, this straightforward guide will help you get to grips with the most accurate way to wade through the numbers, judge a companys performance, and make profitable investment decisions. This UK Adaptation focuses on the UK financial market, with the FTSE index as the focus of the book.Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies includes: Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics Chapter 1: Finding Out What Financial Reporting is for Chapter 2: Recognising Different Business Types Chapter 3: How Company Structure Affects the Books Chapter 4: Digging Into Accounting Basics Part II: Understanding Published Information: Annual Reports Chapter 5: Exploring an Annual Report Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity Chapter 7: Using the Profit and Loss Account Chapter 8: The Sta Cash Flow Statement Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements Chapter 10: Considering the 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: Digging Into Government Regulations Chapter 20: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection Chapter 21: How Companies Soothe the Shareholders Chapter 22: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers Part VI: The Part of Tens Chapter 23: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World Chapter 24: Ten Signs That a Companys in Trouble Chapter 25: Ten Top-Notch Online Resources
Company financial reports are a key resource for investors, helping them uncover priceless information about a companys 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, a For Dummies guide on the subject will help readers to understand company reports and make sensible investment choices based on publicly held information.
Financial reporting is an area that is submerged in jargon and can prove to be daunting, both to the first-time or inexperienced investor, and also to small business managers looking to prepare an annual report. Its a proven market, both for UK For Dummies Investing For Dummies has sold out over 15,000 copies and generally. Investing and personal finance is a huge bookstore category. Individual investors in the UK own over 11% of the FTSE index (the FTSE is the UK equivalent of the Dow Jones). Around 12 million Brits hold shares directly. (The Guardian, May 2006).
About the Author
Alan Bonham MA, FCA, is a Chartered Accountant, freelance lecturer, and business adviser. Ken Langdon is a business trainer, consultant, and author of books on private investment, sales, and finance. Lita Epstein, MBA is the co-author of Trading For Dummies