Reading between the lines of corporate financial reports : in search of financial misstatements

Reading between the lines of corporate financial reports : in search of financial misstatements / Jacek Welc.

This book provides a digestible step-by-step guide to reading corporate financial reports, drawing upon real-life case studies and examples of corporate collapses and accounting scandals, and applying practical tools to financial statement analysis. Appealing to a range of practitioners within corpo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Welc, Jacek (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature, [2020]
Subjects:
Business enterprises > Finance.
Accounting.
Bookkeeping.
Bank marketing.
Accounting
Bank marketing
Bookkeeping
Business enterprises > Finance
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Most common distortions in a financial statement analysis caused by objective weaknesses of accounting and analytical methods
  • Chapter 2. Other noise in a financial statement analysis caused by objective weaknesses of accounting and analytical methods
  • Chapter 3. Deliberate accounting manipulations: introduction and revenue-oriented accounting gimmicks
  • Chapter 4. Deliberate accounting manipulations: expense-oriented accounting gimmicks and intentional profit understatements
  • Chapter 5. Evaluation of financial statement reliability and comparability based on Auditors opinion, narrative disclosures and cash flow data
  • Chapter 6. Problems of comparability and reliability of reported cash flows
  • Chapter 7. Evaluation of financial statement reliability and comparability based on quantitative tools other than cash flows: primary warning signals
  • Chapter 8. Evaluation of financial statement reliability and comparability based on quantitative tools other than cash flows: additional warning signals
  • Chapter 9. Techniques of increasing comparability and reliability of reported accounting numbers: selected simple tools
  • Chapter 10. Techniques of increasing comparability and reliability of reported accounting numbers: some more advanced tools.

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