| Introduction.
Part I: Getting Down to Financial Reporting Basics.
Chapter 1: Opening the Cornucopia of Reports.
Chapter 2: Recognizing Different Business Types.
Chapter 3: How Company Structure Affects the Books.
Chapter 4: Digging Into Accounting Basics.
Part II: Checking Out the Big Show: Annual Reports.
Chapter 5: Exploring the Anatomy of an Annual Report.
Chapter 6: Balancing Assets against Liabilities and Equity.
Chapter 7: Using the Income Statement.
Chapter 8: The Statement of Cash Flows.
Chapter 9: Scouring the Notes to the Financial Statements.
Chapter 10: Considering Consolidated Financial Statements.
Part III: Analyzing the Numbers.
Chapter 11: Testing the Profits and Market Value.
Chapter 12: Looking at Liquidity.
Chapter 13: Making Sure the Company Has Cash to Carry On.
Part IV: Understanding How Companies Optimize Operations.
Chapter 14: Using Basic Budgeting.
Chapter 15: Turning Up Clues in Turnover and Assets.
Chapter 16: Examining Cash Inflow and Outflow.
Chapter 17: How Companies Keep the Cash Flowing.
Part V: The Many Ways Companies Answer to Others.
Chapter 18: Finding Out How Companies Find Errors: The Auditing Process.
Chapter 19: Digging Into Government Regulations.
Chapter 20: Checking Out the Analyst-Corporation Connection.
Chapter 21: How Companies Soothe the Shareholders.
Chapter 22: Keeping Score When Companies Play Games with Numbers.
Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 23: Ten Financial Scandals That Rocked the World.
Chapter 24: Ten Signs That a Company’s in Trouble.
Chapter 25: Ten Top-Notch Online Resources.
Part VII: Appendixes.
Appendix A: Financial Statements.
Appendix B: Glossary.
Index.
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