Understanding Financial Statements

Lyn Fraser,Aileen Ormiston

ISBN 10: 0136191150 / ISBN 13: 9780136191155

Published by Prentice Hall, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Understanding Financial Statements
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0136191150
• ISBN 13: 9780136191155
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 5th or later Edition
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This accessible book presents conceptual background and analysis tools for understanding and interpreting financial statements while emphasizing financial statement evaluation and using them for business decision-making.

This book helps readers think and reason through complex, real-world situations while emphasizing solutions for unstructured problems, using accounting information for decision-making. Devoting individual chapters to different financial statements, it communicates complex financial accounting and disclosure issues in precise language, avoiding unnecessary detail. Presents the financial statements (annual reports) of actual companies. Incorporates new requirements and changes in accounting and reporting standards. The fifth edition of Understanding Financial Statements has been updated to include new requirements and changes in accounting reporting and standards as well as proposed changes that may affect financial reporting in the future. Provides additional cases which allow readers to explore practical and realistic applications of concepts and analytical tools throughout the book.

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Key Benefit: This accessible book presents conceptual background and analysis tools for understanding and interpreting financial statements while emphasizing financial statement evaluation and using them for business decision-making. Key Topics: This book helps readers think and reason through complex, real-world situations while emphasizing solutions for unstructured problems, using accounting information for decision-making. Devoting individual chapters to different financial statements, it communicates complex financial accounting and disclosure issues in precise language, avoiding unnecessary detail. Presents the financial statements (annual reports) of actual companies. Incorporates new requirements and changes in accounting and reporting standards. The fifth edition of Understanding Financial Statements has been updated to include new requirements and changes in accounting reporting and standards as well as proposed changes that may affect financial reporting in the future. Provides additional cases which allow readers to explore practical and realistic applications of concepts and analytical tools throughout the book. Market: A valuable resource for all accounting and business professionals.