Interpreting Company Reports For Dummies

Simple strategies for measuring a company's financial health

Understand the bottom line and make sound financial decisions

Whether you're a manager seeking to prepare a financial report, or an investor hoping to analyse one, unless you're financially savvy the figures and footnotes involved can be intimidating and tedious. 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 throughthe numbers, judge a company's performance, and make profitable investment decisions.

Discover how to:

• Get to grips with various types of financial reporting

• Figure out financial data and footnotes

• Use simple formulas to test the numbers and ensure they add up

• Effectively use financial reports for your own investing or career goals