- Introduction
- Introduction
- Part I: Getting Started with Reading Financial Reports
- Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports
- Chapter 2: Recognizing Business Types and Their Tax Rules
- Chapter 3: Public or Private: How Company Structure Affects the Books
- Chapter 4: Digging into Accounting Basics
- Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports
- Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report
- Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity
- Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement
- Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows
- Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements
- Deciphering the Small Print
- Accounting Policies Note: Laying out the Rules of the Road
- Figuring out Financial Borrowings and Other Commitments
- Mergers and Acquisitions: Finding Noteworthy Information
- Pondering Pension and Retirement Benefits
- Breaking Down Business Breakdowns
- Reviewing Significant Events
- Finding the Red Flags
- Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements
- Part III: Analyzing the Numbers
- Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value
- Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity
- Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On
- Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations
- Chapter 14: How Reports Help with Basic Budgeting
- Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets
- Chapter 16: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow
- Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing
- Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others
- Chapter 18: Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process
- Chapter 19: Digging into Government Regulations
- Chapter 20: Creating a Global Financial Reporting Standard
- Chapter 21: Checking Out the Analyst–Corporation Connection
- Chapter 22: How Companies Communicate with Shareholders
- Chapter 23: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers
- Part VI: The Part of Tens
- Glossary
- About the Authors
- Cheat Sheet
- More Dummies Products
Part V
The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others
Read about whether one international financial reporting standard is likely at www.dummies.com/extras/readingfinancialreports.
In this part…
- Checking out the numbers. Discover the role of auditors.
- Answering to the government. Explore the various government agencies that regulate financial reporting
- Developing international standards. What will they mean for public companies worldwide
- Exploring the role of analysts. Can you trust them?.
- Communicating with the companies in which you invest. What are the options?
- Digging into the games companies play with the numbers on financial reports.
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