How To Read A Balance Sheet

Put the most valuable business tool to work for you! The balance sheet is the key to everything--from efficient business operation to accurate assessment of a company’s worth. It’s a critical business resource--but do you know how to read it? How to Read a Balance Sheet breaks down the subject into easy-to-understand components. If you're a business owner or manager, this book helps you . . . Manage working capital Generate higher returns on assets Maximize your inventory dollars Evaluate investment opportunities If you're an investor, this book helps you . . . Determine the market value of a company's assets and operations Predict future earnings and trends Assess the impact of capital expenditures Identify potential "red flags" before the crowd How to Read a Balance Sheet gives you the bottom line of what you need to know about: Cash Flow * Assets * Debt * Equity * Profit and how it all comes together.

Examines the intricacies of balance sheet interpretation in the fields of commerce and industry. The book is designed to act as a learning tool and revisionary aid for students but would be of use to anyone involved in presenting and/or interpreting balance sheets.

Finance Made Easy Series has been designed to cater to managers and executives with little understanding of finance and little time to read treatises on it. How to Read a Balance Sheet focuses on Balance Sheet, arguably the most important and revealing of all financial statements of any business organization. A lucid, creative and concise exposition of financial statements, their components, jargon and computational methods along with short stories and numerical examples makes for an engaging read for busy professionals.

This book introduces the reader to the Annual Report and discusses its various components namely, the directors report, the audit report and the financial statements. It helps the reader to unravel the mysteries of the financial statements and comprehend the innovativeness of creative accounting.

By setting out and explaining the financial statements of a fictitious company, Manufacturing Company Limited, the author helps people with no accounting knowledge to understand the basic concepts of accounting disclosure and to appreciate their value.

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand the basics of understanding financial statements. Material covered includes a step-by-step instruction on how to read and understand the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. It also covers information about how these three statements are interconnected with one another.