Learn how to detect corporate sleight of hand―and gain the upper hand with smart investing Companies are under more pressure than ever to “beat by a penny,” but you don’t need to be a forensic accountant to uncover where the spin ends and the truth begins. With the help of a powerhouse team of authors, you can avoid losing a chunk of your portfolio when the next overhyped growth stock fails by knowing What’s Behind the Numbers? Investing experts John Del Vecchio and Tom Jacobs mix a potent combination of earnings quality analysis, long-side investing, and short-side portfolio risk management to help you create a long-short portfolio with less volatility and greater returns, while avoiding landmine stocks that will blow a hole in your financial security. First, the authors explain the practical side of financial analysis. They demystify widely held assumptions about stock performance, expected returns, earnings quality, and short sellers. Then they comb the financial statements to find the places where companies hide poor earnings quality. Finally, they provide the value and special situations investing to pair with the short-side thinking and offer a tactical manual for applying what you’ve learned in the technical, day-to-day world of portfolio management. Armed with this wealth-saving guide, you can confidently trade based on clear data―not the aggressive accounting tactics companies use to make their numbers look better than they are. Better still, it helps you start protecting yourself right away with:
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<li>Rules for finding companies playing with―rather than by―the numbers </li>
<li>Repeatable methods for uncovering what companies don’t tell you about their numbers </li>
<li>Multistep approach to deciding when to sell a stock and when to short sell it </li>
<li>Reliable formulas for determining when a stock will get hit</li>
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The next time a company goes south, you can be the successful investor who knew What’s Behind the Numbers? Praise for What's Behind the Numbers? “At Crazy Eddie, we succeeded in perpetrating our financial fraud for many years because most Wall Street analysts and investors took for granted the integrity of our reported numbers. What’s Behind the Numbers? teaches investors to critically look under the surface and spot red flags that could help them avoid potential losses from fraudulent companies like Crazy Eddie.” ―Sam E. Antar, former Crazy Eddie CFO and convicted felon “I know of no other book that better teaches the reader how to determine earnings quality at a company, so you can avoid large losses on stocks you would otherwise own, and score profits by going short. Not only that, this book teaches you how to grow wealth with small-cap stocks in a way that would make value deity Ben Graham proud. . . . Essential for any investor.” ―Jeff Fischer, Portfolio Manager, Motley Fool Pro and Motley Fool Options “Under [Del Vecchio and Jacobs’s] tutelage, forensic accounting is reduced to Math 101. We learn how to employ the metrics they use to expose fi nancial chicanery in companies, to unearth the best short sales, and to protect ourselves from owning those stocks most likely to blow up and wreak havoc on your portfolio. Read What’s Behind the Numbers? so you can keep your portfolio clear of ticking stock bombs. ―Jeffrey A. Hirsch, Chief Market Strategist, Magnet Æ Fund, and Editor-in-Chief, Stock &amp; Commodity Trader’s Almanacs “Wow! A must-read for anyone who thinks they know how to make money in the stock markets! Del Vecchio and Jacobs forced me to confront the stark reality of What’s Behind the Numbers? It isn’t pretty. . . . One of the best books on investing I have read in years.” ―Tom Meredith, former Chief Financial Officer of Dell Inc., venture capitalist “This work will be a sought-after reference book among investment managers and analysts for years to come.” ―Janet J. Mangano, CFA Institute’s Financial Analysts Journal

What's Behind the Numbers?: A Guide to Exposing Financial Chicanery and Avoiding Huge Losses in Your Portfolio

Business & Money

Del Vecchio, John

Jacobs, Tom

Finance

McGraw=Hill

This is THE book you have been waiting for: Cut to the chase, clear, anti-industry money and investing thinking for the educated layperson. For your family, friends, and community. Tom Jacobs and John Del Vecchio, authors of the best-selling book What's Behind the Numbers?, have now come out with their next best-seller, The Rule of 72. In an era where it is easy to be skeptical with how companies manage their funds, Beginning with the Rule of 72, an easy in-your-head plain-as-day way to understand compound interest, Tom and John teach that there is a way to find companies that are actually willing to pay investors to own their stocks. These experienced and highly successful investment experts review the principles of the Rule of 72, explain the best ways to evaluate financial risks, and review the six tests for grading stocks. Tom and John explain the trifecta for how to grow financial armor and protect your money from self-interested company management and the financial services industry. The book also includes interesting facts that you may not already know, plus a compounding calendar on the book's companion website. Regardless of your investment experience or financial management knowledge, this is a must-read for everyone.

Rule of 72: How to Compound Your Money and Uncover Hidden Stock Profits

Investing

Sovereign Society, The

An essential guide to how the law sees minors, and-more crucially-how minors should see their rights. If you're 18 or younger, you need this book.'' You'll gain an understanding of your rights and responsibilities to help you make wise choices.

What Are My Rights?: 95 Questions and Answers About Teens and the Law

Legal Self-Help

ReadHowYouWant

Evolutionary astrologer, medium, and channel Tom Jacobs explores how people live the stories of ten mythic figures. He shares how to separate myth (stories handed down) from archetype (how people actually live the stories), offering insights into how to change our experience of the story so it doesn't turn out the same ways as in the myths, which usually end in frightful ways. This helps us get to the bottom of deep-seated patterns in our life with consciousness, allowing us to change and release what gives us trouble. Included are Ceres, Pallas Athene, Juno, Vesta, Chiron, Persephone, Lilith, Lucifer, Arjunsuri, and Ariadne.

Living Myth: Exploring Archetypal Journeys

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

A medium and channel recounts his seven-year journey from burying his intuitive side to working professionally with spirit guides, Ascended Masters and the spirits of the dead. Interwoven with his experiences are the spiritual truths he learned along the way. This book is for anyone interested in discovering, strengthening, or learning to trust their natural intuitive side. Filled with wisdom, compassion, and humor, it shines light on some unseen parts of life that add depth and meaning to the human experience. The spiritual side of life is available to everyone, and Tom Jacobs takes you on a guided tour of his path to reconnect with his. Included is a meditation to ground, open to spirit, open the heart, cleanse the aura, and learn to develop healthy energetic boundaries.

Seeing Through Spiritual Eyes: A Memoir of Intuitive Awakening

Astrologer, medium, and channel Tom Jacobs shares his unique approach to karmic astrology. His experiences as a medium working with the spirits of the dead and as a channel bringing through the wisdom of Ascended Masters have opened his view on astrology to begin his work with an analysis of the multi-life journey each soul is traveling. The result is a four step method to open and easily understand the karmic, multi-life journey of the soul behind any astrological birth chart. This work takes evolutionary astrology to the next level. Tom shares the method of analysis and almost two dozen examples from his client files and from the lives of well-known people to bring it to life.

The Soul's Journey I: Astrology, Reincarnation, and Karma with a Medium and Channel

Everyone faces the challenging invitations of the planet Saturn at key times during their lives. The planet of hard work, structure, discipline, and authority asks us to grow up and make of our lives a long-term work that will make a difference in the world. Responding to its invitations with ease and grace requires understand certain things and being willing to change and grow. This books looks at Saturn in the astrological birth chart and what each of the first two returns (ages 29 1/2 and 59) have in store for us. Included are explanations of the aspects in the natal chart between Saturn and other planets framed in terms of what each Saturn return will ask us to do.

Saturn Returns: Thinking Astrologically

This second volume in the series outlining the use of astrology as a tool to understand and learn to work with soul is a transcription of a 2-day intensive to teach and expand upon the principles presented in The Soul's Journey I to a small group in an intimate setting. Emotional archaeology is the term Evolutionary Astrologer, Medium, and Channel Tom Jacobs uses for digging down into the strata of emotions a person carries from this life and other lives. We are defined by our choices, which are determined by our beliefs, and our histories of experiencing energy and emotion in this life and across time shape our beliefs. This in-depth material explains the nuts and bolts of changing karma - by changing beliefs - and reveals through 7 case studies the birth chart as a map of karma as well as the soul's Divine intent. A section on Pluto Generations explains what different soul groups have in common when they incarnate close together in time. The empowerment journey of souls - including challenges, fears, passions, skills, and empowered gifts - with Pluto in Gemini (1882-1914) through Pluto in Capricorn (2008-2124) are described. This unique approach makes understanding astrological generations and their varied priorities, skills, handicaps, and critiques of each other easy to understand, bringing to the surface what we all feel about ourselves and others but don't always know how to put words to. In addition to Pluto, the nodes of the Moon and the rest of the chart, a number of little-used archetypes are explained in detail, fleshing out how individuals experience them in everyday life. The myths and archetypes of Chiron, Persephone (399), the true Black Moon Lilith, Arjunsuri (20300), Lucifer (1930), Eris, Pallas Athene, Ceres, Juno, and Vesta are all explored in depth as Jacobs unfolds the karmic stories in the charts of the 7 workshop participants, giving them the weight in chart analysis they deserve given the weight they have in our psyches and life experiences.

The Soul's Journey II: Emotional Archaeology

Politics & Social Sciences

Archaeology

When evolutionary astrologer and channel Tom Jacobs asked several Ascended Masters what will happen in 2012, he was answered with new insights about how to understand Chiron and help people heal wounding related to it. After using the information for several years in his practice, he produced an eleven hour audio course to relay all he had learned as an astrology teaching. This groundbreaking material can be used to come out of victimhood once and for all, helping us connect with ourselves as the powerful, divine spiritual beings that we are. This book is a transcription of that audio course. It covers 2012/the end of the Mayan Calendar and how it leads to the Aquarian Age, Chiron's myth and archetypal process, and all the astrology of Chiron, all to enable astrologers and students to understand this view of Chiron from the Ascended Masters so the consciousness level of the Aquarian Age can be seeded firmly here and now.

Chiron, 2012, and the Aquarian Age: The Key and How to Use It

After 6,000 years of imbalance between masculine and feminine we are emerging into the light of conscious awareness about who we really are. In this important book Evolutionary Astrologer, Medium, and Channel Tom Jacobs leads you through an exploration of the genesis and roots of the patriarchy and how Lilith's issues reflect the imbalance through which we have for so long lived. Jacobs takes apart the myth that we have been taught and cuts through the fog of negativity surrounding Lilith that has brought us to fear knowing her. He lays out an archetypal process for healing Lilith within us that honors her as a natural part of us - not as a demon to be feared. He then explains the difference between several Liliths used in astrology, making a case for the use of the osculating apogee or true Black Moon Lilith. Natal houses, signs, and aspects of Lilith are explained, followed by transits and progressions to Lilith and the true Black Moon itself in transit. The text concludes with an exploration of Lilith in relationship. This book offers a unique and empowering look at a goddess we are taught to fear but need to learn to honor and respect within us. Tom Jacobs here provides tools to end the patriarchal war on the feminine through insight, acceptance, and compassion.

Lilith: Healing the Wild

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