The comprehensive guide on how to read a financial report : wringing vital signs out of the numbers / John A. Tracy and Tage C. Tracy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tracy, John A.

Contributor:

Tracy, Tage C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial statements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

Eight edition.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

A comprehensive guide to reading and understanding financial reports Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This comprehensive version of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through that language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. The book features new information on the move toward separate financial and accounting reporting standards for private

Contents:

The Comprehensive Guide on How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers; Copyright; Contents; List of Exhibits; Preface; Part One: Financial Report Fundamentals; Chapter 1: Financial Statement Basics: The Real Meat and Potatoes of Financial Reports; The Big Three-Financial Condition, Profit Performance, and Cash Flows; First Up, the Balance Sheet; Next in Line, the Income Statement; Bringing Up the Rear, the Statement of Cash Flows; Additional Financial Statement Considerations and Concepts; An Important Concept to Understand Throughout This Book

Chapter 2: Starting with Cash Flows Cash Flows-Just How Important Is It for a Business?; Cash Flows-What Does It Not Tell You?; Profit and Losses Cannot Be Measured by Cash Flows; Cash Flows Do Not Reveal Financial Condition; Chapter 3: Mastering the Balance Sheet; Solvency versus Liquidity; Balance Sheet Basics-Left and Right, Top to Bottom; The Balance Sheet Message; Chapter 4: Understanding Profit; Why Discuss Profits Last?; An Important Question; Nature of Profit; Recording Revenue and Expenses; Recording Revenue; Recording Cost of Goods Sold Expense

Recording Selling, General, and Administrative (SG&A) Expenses Recording Depreciation Expense; Recording Interest Expense; Recording Income Tax Expense; Recording Net Income into Retained Earnings; Winding Up; Chapter 5: Profit Isn't Everything and All Things; Remember-Everything's Connected; Threefold Financial Task of Business Managers; One Problem in Reporting Financial Statements; Interlocking Nature of the Three Financial Statements; Connecting the Dots and Expanding Your Knowledge of Financial Reports; Part Two: Working Capital Connections; Chapter 6: Our Case Study-Company Introductions

Company Overviews HareSquared, Inc.; TortTech, Inc.; Friendly Reminders; Chapter 7: Sales Revenue, Trade Accounts Receivable, and Deferred Revenue; Exploring One Link at a Time; How Sales Revenue Drives Accounts Receivable; A Special Link - How Accounts Receivable Drives Deferred Revenue; Accounting Issues and Our Case Study; Chapter 8: Cost(s) of Goods Sold Expense and Inventory; Exploring Our Second Critical Link; What Is in Costs of Goods Sold Expense?; Holding Products in Inventory before They Are Sold; Accounting Issues and Our Case Study; Chapter 9: Inventory and Accounts Payable

Examining Our Third Link, with a Twist Acquiring Inventory on the Cuff; Accounting Issues and Our Case Study; Chapter 10: Operating Expenses and Accounts Payable; The Connection Is Important but Let's Start with the Basics; Recording Expenses before They Are Paid; Accounting Issues and Our Case Study; Chapter 11: Accruing Liabilities for Incurred but Unpaid Expenses; Understanding Hidden Risks with This Connection; Recording the Accrued Liability for Operating Expenses; Accounting Issues and Our Case Study; Chapter 12: Income Tax Expense-A Liability and Asset?

Why the Income Tax Connection Can Be Very Confusing

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781118820889

1118820886

9781118820834

1118820835

OCLC:

861120085