John Wiley & Sons, Fachbücher, Reading Financial Reports for Dummies (Englisch, Lita Epstein, 2022)

Introduction 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Financial Reports 5 Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports 7 Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules 19 Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books 27 Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics 45 Part 2: The Big Show: Annual Reports 63 Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report 65 Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity 79 Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement 95 Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows 111 Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements 123 Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements 141 Part 3: Analyzing the Numbers 155 Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value 157 Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity 175 Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On 187 Part 4: How Companies Optimize Operations 199 Chapter 14: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets 201 Chapter 15: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow 213 Chapter 16: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing 223 Part 5: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others 231 Chapter 17: How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process 233 Chapter 18: Government Regulations and Reporting Requirements 243 Chapter 19: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard 255 Chapter 20: Understanding the Analyst-Corporation Connection 265 Chapter 21: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders 277 Chapter 22: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers 291 Part 6: The Part of Tens 315 Chapter 23: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World 317 Chapter 24: Ten Signs That a Company's in Trouble 327 Glossary 333 Index 341.