Understanding Financial Statements, 12th edition

Published by Pearson (August 24, 2023) © 2024

  • Lyn M. Fraser
  • Aileen Ormiston

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Title overview

Understanding Financial Statements provides you with the conceptual background and analytical tools to understand and interpret business financial statements. The text helps boost your confidence in analyzing these documents as well as understanding a firm's historical, current, and prospective financial condition and performance.

The 12th Edition continues its superior readability, concise coverage, and accessibility. It features new cases and enhanced learning tools to help you make sense of complex financial information, so that you can make sound, profitable business decisions.

Table of contents

  1. Financial Statements: An Overview
  2. The Balance Sheet
  3. Income Statement, Comprehensive Income, and Statement of Stockholders' Equity
  4. Statement of Cash Flows
  5. The Analysis of Financial Statements

APPENDICES

  1. Summary of Financial Ratios
  2. Solutions to Self-Tests
  3. Glossary

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