Accounting for dummies - Tracy, John A. (Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016)
Window dressing: Pumping up the ending cash balance and cash flow -- Smoothing the rough edges off year-to-year profit fluctuations -- Comparing Public and Private Companies -- Reports from publicly owned companies -- Reports from private businesses -- Dealing with Information Overload -- Browsing based on your interests -- Recognizing condensed versions -- Using other sources of business information -- Chapter 10 Reading a Financial Report -- Knowing the Rules of the Game -- Making Investment Choices -- Contrasting Reading Financial Reports of Private Versus Public Businesses -- Using Ratios to Digest Financial Statements -- Gross margin ratio -- Profit ratio -- Earnings per share (EPS), basic and diluted -- Price/earnings (P/E) ratio -- Dividend yield -- Market value, book value, and book value per share -- Return on equity (ROE) ratio -- Current ratio -- Acid-test (quick) ratio -- Return on assets (ROA) ratio and financial leverage gain -- Cash flow ratios - not -- More ratios? -- Frolicking through the Footnotes -- Checking Out the Auditor's Report -- Why audits? -- What's in an auditor's report? -- Discovering fraud, or not -- Chapter 11 Inside Information for Managers Only -- Building on the Foundation of the External Financial Statements -- Seeking out problems and opportunities -- Avoiding information overload -- Gathering Financial Condition Information -- Cash -- Accounts receivable -- Inventory -- Prepaid expenses -- Fixed assets less accumulated depreciation -- Intangible assets -- Accounts payable -- Accrued expenses payable -- Income tax payable -- Interest-bearing debt -- Owners' equity -- Culling Profit Information -- Presenting an income statement for managers -- Calculating cash flow on the back of an envelope -- Managing operating cash flows -- Scrutinizing sales revenue and expenses -- Digging deeper into ROE (return on equity).
Includes index.
"Learning Made Easy"--Cover.
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