Financial Reporting and Analysis

Foley, Bob

ISBN 10: 1845160584 / ISBN 13: 9781845160586

Published by Institute of Financial Services, 2005

About this Item

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Financial Reporting and Analysis
• Publisher: Institute of Financial Services
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845160584
• ISBN 13: 9781845160586
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 610 grams

About this title

Synopsis

* How to relate accounting information to actual business decisions
* How to recognize economically useful information in statements and reports
* Uses international accounting standards
* How to analyze weaknesses as well as strengths of published financial statements

There are a great many types of financial statement and report from which essential information can be extracted. This advanced level textbook shows how the student can learn to analyze all of them and use them to extract information useful to managers, investors, and other decision makers. The principle of the book is “decision usefulness”—in other words, the immediate economic value of information—but legal and regulatory frameworks are also reviewed.

Especially appropriate for advanced students of accounting, financial services, and business studies.

About the Author

Bob Foley , MD, of Hot-SPots Multimedia, is the well-established author of business textbooks and computer-based training materials and has written for the AAT, ACCA, CAT, CIB, CIM, CIMA, FPC, ICSA, and ILM qualifications as well as HND and degree courses.