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Product Description: This book gives any investor the ability to protect him-or herself in this uncertain environment by using financial statements as a weapon. Becoming a "financial detective" doesn't require any understanding of accounting, mastery of obscure language, or the ability to read the fine print without a microscope...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Covers such topics as prior evidence on corporate annual reports, research methodology and the demographics of the corporate shareholder, investors' investment objectives and their information sources, and the readership and usefulness of corporate financial statements. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Introduces the basic parts of a financial report, tells what information is especially important, and discusses the balance sheet, cash flow, equity, auditors' reports, and historical perspective