How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

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Wiley, Feb 27, 2004 - Business & Economics - 216 pages
Hidden somewhere among all the numbers in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is going. This is especially relevant in light of the current corporate scandals.
The sixth edition of this bestselling book is designed to help anyone who works with financial reports--but has neither the time nor the need for an in-depth knowledge of accounting--cut through the maze of accounting information to find out what those numbers really mean.

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JOHN A. TRACY is an award-winning professor of accounting at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is also the author of The Fast Forward MBA in Finance.

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