Product Description

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 based on publicly held information.

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 company’s 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #312508 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-08
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 402 pages

From the Back Cover

Simple strategies for measuring a company′s financial health

Understand the bottom line and make sound financial decisions

Whether you′re a manager seeking to prepare a financial report, or an investor hoping to analyse one, unless you′re 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 throughthe numbers, judge a company′s performance, and make profitable investment decisions.

Discover how to:

• Get to grips with various types of financial reporting

• Figure out financial data and footnotes

• Use simple formulas to test the numbers and ensure they add up

• Effectively use financial reports for your own investing or career goals

About the Author

Alan Bonham is a Chartered Accountant, freelance lecturer, and businessadviser. Ken Langdon is a business trainer, consultant, and author of books on private investment, sales, and finance. Lita Epstein is the co–author of Trading For Dummies.

Customer Reviews

not a great effort
this is one of those books where the author spends the first half of the book telling you what will be in future chapters but you never quite get there because you lose interest by the half way point after not actually being told much at all in the first half....