{"product_id":"9781885408389","title":"Analyzing Financial Statements","description":"Learn the 25 keys to unlocking the powerful and useful information  buried in corporate financial statements, including understanding  balance sheets and income statements, defining accrual accounting, and  valuing costs of goods sold, inventory and cash flow:\u003cbr\u003e    Key 1.  Accounting is not a four-letter word.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 2.  Financial statements rely on fact, not possibility.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 3.  What's hanging in the balance sheet?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 4.  Take steps to understand the income statement.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 5.  Matching and adjusting-the crux of accrual accounting.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 6.  Who decides what financial statements contain?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 7.  Where cash came from and where it went.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 8.  Monetary matters need not be murky.  Follow the cash.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 9.  Keeping owner's claims straight.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 10.  Don't ignore the fine print!  Read the footnotes.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 11.  What shapes a firm's financial reporting strategy?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 12.  Financial reports are useful for both running and evaluating  the company.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 13.  Financial statements have trouble measuring future  opportunities properly.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 14.  You got the basics, so how are financial data used to compare  one firm with another?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 15.  Staying alive: analyzing financial data to measure the health  and survivability of a firm.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 16.  How great are the costs of financial distress?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 17.  Estimating the cost of using up productive capacity:  depreciation.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 18.  Computing costs of goods sold, and valuing inventory.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 19.  What do we have to pay?  Accounting for taxes.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 20.  Don't overlook long-term obligations: debt and leases.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 21.  More long-term obligations: pensions and other benefits.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 22.  Untangling the web of inter-corporate investments.\u003cbr\u003e  Key 23.  Is my company global?  Should I care?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 24.  What I am buying if I purchase a foreign firm's stock?\u003cbr\u003e  Key 25.  What are other sources of financial information?\u003cbr\u003e    \u003ci\u003eAnalyzing Financial Statements\u003c\/i\u003e is part of The New York Times Pocket MBA  Series, a reference series easily accessible to all businesspersons,  from first-level managers to the executive suite. The 12-volume series  is written by Ph.D.s who teach in the finest graduate business programs  in the country, and edited by business editors from The New York Times.   The structure of each volume presents an unparalleled synopsis of  crucial principles of specific areas of business expertise.  AUTHOR BIO:\u003cbr\u003e    Eric Press, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Accounting at the Fox  School of Business and Management at Temple University.  A CPA in  Washington state, he serves on editorial boards and as a referee at  numerous publications, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary  Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons and The Journal of Accounting  and Public Policy.  From 1994 to 1998, Eric served as a member of the  American Institute of Certified Public Accountants' SEC Regulations  Committee.    NARRATOR BIO:\u003cbr\u003e    Jeff Woodman has been named one of the \"Fifty Greatest Voices of the  Century\" by Audiofile Magazine. On stage, he created the title role in  Tennessee William's The Notebook of Trigorin and won the S.F. Bay Area  Critic's Circle Award for An Ideal Husband.  He lives in New York City.  ","brand":"Listen \u0026 Live Audio, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48184097505520,"sku":"9781885408389","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781885408389_p0.jpg?v=1763605838","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781885408389","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}