Wise investors uncover a company's real story. The Secret Language of Financial Reports helps you read a company's annual report like a good book so you can make informed investment decisions. From reading the fine print to interpreting what isn't accounted for, this authoritative guide provides a road map for seeing past the complexity and jargon in company reports in order to understand what is and is not communicated there. Through numerous diagrams, insightful analogies, and real-world based examples, it deconstructs and explains the critical aspects of an annual report by revealing 14 underlying “secrets.” In The Secret Language of Financial Reports, Mark E. Haskins demystifies the process of creating annual reports in order for you to fully understand the main purposes, fundamental premises, basic content, embedded compromises, and inherent shortcomings of these documents. He offers detailed coverage of: <ul>
<li> Balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow </li>
<li> The auditor's report, financial statement notes, and management's discussion and analysis </li>
<li>Strategies for applying the information you decipher</li>
</ul>

The Secret Language of Financial Reports: The Back Stories That Can Enhance Your Investment Decisions

Business & Money

Haskins, Mark E.

Economics

McGraw=Hill

A revision of Financial Accounting and Reporting, this text is suitable for an introductory financial accounting course at either the undergraduate or MBA level. The book assumes no prior financial accounting exposure on the part of the student. The book does assume that the instructor is interested in positioning financial accounting as an important element in managing a business enterprise and in communicatiing that enterprise's performance to interested constituencies. The text adopts a business-context, user-orientation outlook as a central emphasis and places moderate emphasis on the procedural aspects of financial accounting. 
At either the undergraduate or the MBA level, instructors have the flexibility to pitch their use of the text with some slight alterations to the basic emphases. They can do this through their selection of end of chapter assignments. These assignments provide an array of choices, from the purely conceptual to the purely procedural, and in between. Moreover, instructors can go into more of the technical details of a topic if they choose by incorporating the chapter appendices.

Fundamentals of Accounting for Decision Making

Sack, Robert

Ferris, Kenneth R.

Allen, Brandt

McGraw-Hill/Primis Custom Publishing

Written to create a collection of teaching cases that are interesting, thought-provoking and relevant to contemporary business situations and decisions, this book advocates broadening and strengthening the management dimensions of management accounting and control courses—doing so without sacrificing essential accounting content. Challenging yet concise cases are presented in a manner that minimizes reader preparation requirements. Topics and materials demonstrate how costs, cost analysis, and planning and performance measurement can be useful to managers in making operating and strategic decisions. This edition includes cases intended to build a foundation of basic concepts like cost behaviors, standard costing, and relevant costs. It also includes cases intended to address more comprehensive and complex issues such as activity-based thinking, balanced scorecards, transfer pricing, the use of ROI versus Residual Income to measure performance, flexible budgeting, and revenue and expense variance analysis. For anyone in management accounting, cost accounting, strategic cost management, and/or management control systems professions.

Cases In Management Accounting And Control Systems

Brownlee, E. Richard

Allen, Brandt R.

Lynch, Luann J.

Rotch, Jane W.

Accounting

Pearson College Div

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTING is written for students who require an understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues, problems, and practices. It is appropriate for the second financial accounting course at the MBA level, often called Corporate Financial Reporting. Careful consideration is given to the management aspects associated with various financial reporting issues. Chapters blend issues, concepts, standards, and stakeholder interests to convey the complexities, controversies, and uncertainties inherent in the financial reporting process.

Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases

Richard D.Irwin

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Irwin Professional Publishing

CORPORATE FINANCIAL REPORTING is written for students who require an understanding of financial accounting and reporting issues, problems, and practices. It is appropriate for the second financial accounting course at the MBA level, often called Corporate Financial Reporting. This text is also appropriate for schools that offer a one semester Intermediate accounting course, at the undergraduate level, for Finance majors. Careful consideration is given to the management aspects associated with various financial reporting issues. Chapters blend issues, concepts, standards and stakeholder interests to convey the complexities, controversies and uncertainties inherent in the financial reporting process.

Finance

International Accounting uses a country-specific approach to focus on comparative financial analysis. It offers students an opportunity to learn about international financial reporting practices and their contextual factors so that students may understand the reasons for their diversity. The book's focus for students is on skill development. Also, the strong presentation of the review and analysis of firm performance by analysts, investors, and managers coupled with several cases at the end of every chapter will give students a strong introduction to the global nature of accounting. International Financial Reporting and Analysis is appropriate for graduate students and upper-level undergraduates. In an undergraduate setting, it assumes an intermediate-level accounting background. In a MBA setting, students will need a strong introductory financial accounting course prerequisite.

International Financial Reporting and Analysis: A Contextual Emphasis

Selling, Thomas I.

Overview of accounting and financial statements; accounting as the language of business; there is more to accounting than meets the eye; the accounting process; using and understanding the basic financial statements; the balance sheet; the income statement; the statement of cash flows; analyzing and understanding corporate financial reports; measuring and reporting assets and equities using generally accepted accounting principles; trade receivables and marketable securities; inventories and cost of goods sold; active investments and business communications; noncurrent assets - fixed assets, intangible assets and natural resources; accounting of liabilities - basic concepts, payables, accurals, and interest-bearing debt; leases, retirement benefit, and deferred income taxes; owners' equity; financial reporting in two other countries; communication corporate value.

Sack, Robert J.

Mcgraw-Hill College

Teaching Management: A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers

How can every management class be a dynamic, unforgettable experience? This much-needed book distils over half a century of the authors' combined experience as university professors, consultants, and advisors to corporate training departments. In a lively, hands-on fashion, it describes the fundamental elements in every learning situation, allowing readers to adapt the suggestions to their particular teaching context. It sparks reflection on what we do in the classroom, why we do it, and how it might be done more effectively. The chapters are broadly organized according to things you do before class, things you do during class, and things you do in between and after class, so that every instructor, whether newly-minted PhDs facing their first classroom experience, experienced faculty looking to polish their teaching techniques, consultants who want to have more impact, or corporate trainers wishing to develop in-house teaching skills, can benefit from the invaluable advice given.

Clawson, James G. S.

Management & Leadership

Cambridge University Press

How can every management class be a dynamic, unforgettable experience? This much-needed book distils over half a century of the authors' combined experience as university professors, consultants, and advisors to corporate training departments. In a lively, hands-on fashion, it describes the fundamental elements in every learning situation, allowing readers to adapt the suggestions to their particular teaching context. It sparks reflection on what we do in the classroom, why we do it, and how it might be done more effectively. The chapters are broadly organized according to things you do before class, things you do during class, and things you do in between and after class, so that every instructor, whether newly-minted PhDs facing their first classroom experience, experienced faculty looking to polish their teaching techniques, consultants who want to have more impact, or corporate trainers wishing to develop in-house teaching skills, can benefit from the invaluable advice given.

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The Secret Language of Financial Reports: The Back Stories That Can Enhance Your Investment Decisions

Fundamentals of Accounting for Decision Making

Cases In Management Accounting And Control Systems

Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases

International Financial Reporting and Analysis: A Contextual Emphasis

Financial Accounting and Reporting

Teaching Management: A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers

Teaching Management: A Field Guide for Professors, Consultants, and Corporate Trainers