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 repor[...]

Helps readers to understand company reports and make investment choices based on publicly held information. Taking you step-by-step through the finer points of financial reports, this guide helps you get to grips with an accurate way to wade through the numbers, judge a company's performance, and ma[...]

Financial statements hold the key to a company's fiscal health--so learn to read them! In order to gauge a company's health--as well as the competition's--managers must know how to properly read and understand financial statements.[...]

Discover how to decipher financial reports Especially relevant in today's world of corporate scandals and new accounting laws, the numbers in a financial report contain vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going.[...]