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Overview

The second edition includes over 25 percent new and updated information including:

  • New information on the separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses
  • Updated information that reflects the 2007 law on international financial reporting standards
  • New content to match SEC and other governmental regulatory changes over the past three years
  • New information about how the analyst-corporate connection has actually changed the playing field
  • The impact of corporate communications and new technologies
  • New examples that reflect the current trends
  • Updated websites and resources

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780470376287
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 1/9/2009
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 186,106
  • Series: For Dummies Series
  • Product dimensions: 7.30 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Meet the Author

Lita Epstein, MBA, is a seasoned financial writer who focuses on helping people understand the complex worlds of money and finance. She was a financial manager for a medical clinic and content director for a financial services Web site, MostChoice.com. She also writes for AOL's Blogging Stocks and WalletPop.

Table of Contents

Introduction.

Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics.

Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports.

Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules.

Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books.

Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics.

Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: 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: Analyzing the Numbers.

Chapter 11: Testing the Profi ts and Market Value.

Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity.

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

Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations.

Chapter 14: How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting.

Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets.

Chapter 16: Examining Cash Infl ow and Outflow.

Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing.

Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others.

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

Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations.

Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard.

Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection.

Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders.

Chapter 23: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 24: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World.

Chapter 25: Ten Signs That a Company’s in Trouble.

Glossary.

Index.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 21, 2009

    Not Impressed

    One of the things I don't like about the "dummies" books is that frequently, in order to be politically correct, they will automatically seek out a woman to write the book instead of just seeking out the most qualified person they can find.

    From reading the "about the author" section in the book, it appears that she doesn't have very much actual work experience in the field of corporate finance. "After receiving her MBA, she managed finances for a small nonprofit organization and the facilities management section of a large medical clinic." That's all? The rest of her resume contains some impressive jobs, but none of them are directly related to studying financial statements. Surely there must be at least a thousand people out there that are more qualified to write this book.

    The author's lack of real world experience in this specific field makes me question the integrity of the information contained in the book. I'm not saying that it's all wrong, I just don't completely trust it.

    Having said that, I'll finish this review by quoting my favorite passage from the book, on page 105: "The calculation for earnings per share is relatively simple. You take the number of outstanding shares and divide it by the net earnings." Oops! Actually, to calculate earnings per share, you take net earnings and divide it by the number of outstanding shares. I guess it's not so simple after all!

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  • Posted August 10, 2009

    JUST PERFECT FOR THIS DUMMY

    AN EXCELLENT TOOL. CONCISE AND WELL ORGANIZED. WILL PROBABLY USE THIS TOOL FOR YEARS. THE AUTHOR'S BEST FEATURE WAS EXPLAINING THE OUTCOME OR MEASUREMENT IN UNDERSTANDABLE REAL WORLD TERMS.
    ALLOWED ME TO CONSTRUCT A UNIVERSAL SPREADSHEET FOR ANALYSIS OF ANY PUBLIC COMPANY'S FINANCIAL CONDITION IN JUST MINUTES WITHOUT A LOT OF STRESS.
    REALLY HELPS TO SHINE A LIGHT IN THE CORNERS SO I CAN COMPARE TWO UNRELATED ENTITIES AND WEITGH THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES.
    MOST BOOKS OF THIS TYPES ARE FILLED WITH TOO MUCH UNUSABLE TECHNICAL DETAIL.

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