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Understanding and Interpreting Company Accounts

Author : Stephen Bloomfield

Publisher : Robinson

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 24,14 MB

Release : 2016-07-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1472136284

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Understanding and Interpreting Accounts is designed for those with no formal training in accounting who need to know what company accounts can reveal. Using non-technical terms to explain the concepts, it identifies the links between individual parts of the accounts in order to facilitate the analysis and prediction of company performance. The reader will rapidly gain sufficient understanding of the information held in the accounts for the purposes of commercial credit analysis, investment planning, business forecasting, managing a business, and many other similar activities. It is the product of many years' experience in teaching the interpretation of accounts to students on MBA courses with no previous background in accounting. Its simple but thorough approach will be of value to anyone - student, professional, manager or investor -- who needs a basic introduction to analysing accounts and the process of mining them for practical information.



The Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts

Author : Wendy Mckenzie

Publisher : Pearson UK

Page : 479 pages

File Size : 49,32 MB

Release : 2013-12-13

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 027374688X

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The Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts is designed for the non-accountant manager, investor or entrepreneur who is expected to have financial knowledge but may not have accounting training. Wendy McKenzie approaches the project via three key points: What information will I find in these accounts?; How do I analyse the accounts?; How can I use my analysis? Using publicly available actual accounts, the book begins by covering the ‘numbers’ from company accounts then moves on to information such as the financial review and then explains the logic of the accounts. To help with the interpreting of the numbers Wendy shows the reader how to understand issues such as cash flow, what this will tell you about a company, how to consider a competitor’s accounts and how to perform ratio calculations to help with company analysis.



Company Accounts

Author : M. W. Pendlebury

Publisher : Van Nostrand Reinhold

Page : 275 pages

File Size : 17,45 MB

Release : 1994-01-01

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780415106023

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Radical and major changes in the format and content of financial statements have been introduced by the Accounting Standards Board. In this new edition of Company Accounts the authors fully examine these changes and discuss their impact on financial reporting techniques. Their purpose is to provide a clear understanding of the nature and format of the annual report and accounts of a company as well as a full introduction to the analysis and interpretation of financial statements. Company Accounts now provides up-to-date coverage of recent developments in company financial reporting and corporate governance, a clear explanation of the use of cash flows in the analysis of company financial information, and comprehensive coverage of the use of ratio analysis in the evaluation of corporate performance and financial status. Throughout, the authors use the financial statements of The BOC Group plc as a practical case study providing the basis for description, interpretation and analysis. Company Accounts has become an invaluable text for MBA and other students specializing in management and business studies. Managers, investors and others with business interests will find it a highly useful and accessible guide to the understanding of the financial reports and accounts of companies.



Interpreting Company Reports and Accounts

Author : Geoffrey Holmes

Publisher : Financial Times/Prentice Hall

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 49,98 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN :

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Published accounts are often not easy to understand and are sometimes downright misleading but, to those who know how to read them, they provide the most readily available source of information on a company's activities, its profitability and its prospects. This book guides the reader through the conventions and complexities of reports and accounts, explaining how to assess the financial and trading position of a company from year to year, how to spot undue risk-taking, where and how to look for clues on the quality of management and how to detect where window-dressing has been used to disguise poor results.In 1990 the authors wrote: 'Company accounting is currently in a state of flux, confusion and controversy'. It is now in much better shape. In ten years, 15 Financial Reporting Standards (FRSs), countless Financial Reporting Exposure Drafts (FREDs), a host of other documents, and, for the first time in the UK, an exposure draft Statement of Principles of Financial Reporting have been produced by the Accounting Standards Board (ASB). Many earlier abuses have been prevented, and much more information now has to be disclosed, the use and purpose of which the authors seek to explain



FT Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts, 4th Edition

Author : Wendy Mckenzie

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 21,72 MB

Release : 2013

Category :

ISBN :

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The Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts is designed for the non-accountant manager, investor or entrepreneur who is expected to have financial knowledge but may not have accounting training. Wendy McKenzie approaches the project via three key points: What information will I find in these accounts?; How do I analyse the accounts?; How can I use my analysis? Using publicly available actual accounts, the book begins by covering the 'numbers' from company accounts then moves on to information such as the financial review and then explains the logic of the accounts. To help with the interpreting of the numbers Wendy shows the reader how to understand issues such as cash flow, what this will tell you about a company, how to consider a competitor's accounts and how to perform ratio calculations to help with company analysis.





The Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts

Author : Wendy McKenzie

Publisher : Ft Press

Page : 279 pages

File Size : 31,92 MB

Release : 1994

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9780273607274

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Reading and using company accounts is an essential skill for any manager. Yet most managers find analysing accounts a daunting prospect. The Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts solves the problem but not only guiding you through the accounts but also by providing the tools to help you interpret them and make informed decisions. The book begins by illustrating the information to be found in the accounts and looks at the key elements of financial statements. It looks at each statement in the accounts, identifies what they tell you and explains how to read the relevant notes in both UK and overseas accounts. The author then moves on to illustrate what these say about a company's financial performance and shows how to calculate the relevant ratios from a set of published accounts and how to use them to best affect. The final section of the book shows you how to apply this knowledge on a daily basis, in negotiations with your suppliers and customers, in assessing the financial performance of competitors and identifying the acquisition potential of a company.



Financial Times Guide to Using and Interpreting Company Accounts

Author : Wendy McKenzie

Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 15,13 MB

Release : 1998

Category : Corporation reports

ISBN : 9780273630999

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Provides an understanding of valuation analysis techniques such as economic value-added and value based management. The book also provides an explanation of international accounting differences and standards and "creative" accounting practices, showing how to recognize and interpret them.



Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies

Author : Ken Langdon

Publisher : John Wiley & Sons

Page : 398 pages

File Size : 47,49 MB

Release : 2011-02-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1119997879

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Company financial reports are a key resource for investors, helping them uncover priceless information about a company’s profitability, or lack thereof, from the figures as well as through other non-monetary indicators. Details of lawsuits, changes in accounting methods, liquidations, and mergers and acquisitions can all be ways of detecting red flags if you know where to look. However the jargon and financial footnotes in financial reports can be difficult to decipher, and this For Dummies guide on the subject will help readers to understand company reports and make sensible investment choices based on publicly held information. Taking you step-by-step through the finer points of financial reports, this straightforward guide will help you get to grips with the most accurate way to wade through the numbers, judge a company’s performance, and make profitable investment decisions. This UK Adaptation focuses on the UK financial market, with the FTSE index as the focus of the book.



The Meaning of Company Accounts

Author : Walter Reid

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 541 pages

File Size : 19,2 MB

Release : 2020-12-18

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 100016070X

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Book Description

This title was first published in 2000: The authors' workbook approach provides a treatment of financial accounting practice which readers at differing levels of knowledge can tailor individually to their learning requirements. There is an appendix of photocopiable formats including financial rations and segment analysis.