How to Use Financial Statements: A Guide to Understanding the Numbers

by James Bandler

Book Overview

How to Use Financial Statements explains in clear, easy to understand methods how to read a financial statement. Written for the non-financial professional, this book is ideal for:

Professionals that have been promoted to a job that requires reviewing financial statements Investors that have accumulated enough savings to begin looking at alternatives Spouses that have suffered the loss of the member of the family who has always dealt...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078630197X
• ISBN13: 9780786301973
• Release Date: June 1994
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Awesome book

I am very happy with financial statements. It is clear, concise and gets right to the point. Plus it's light too. Overall I am happy with my purchase.

excellent refresher

I had a basic understanding of financial statements from accounting courses in college, but had forgotten most of it in the past 7 years. This book was a great refresher and would probably also be a good first book for someone with zero - very limited knowledge.

Great for understanding & interpreting financial statements

This book teaches anyone (from owners, to managers, to employees, to customers, to lenders, to suppliers, and to attorneys) how to obtain answers from financial statements by asking the right questions. This book is not filled with esoteric symbols and mathematical babbles, but with clear diagrams and down to earth explanations of the applications of each part of the financial statements. The author has done an excellent job on making this seemingly confusing subject very easy to understand and useful to those who needs to make decisions from it.

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The best book of its type: covers key points in a direct and effective way. If you need to refresh understanding of financial statements, or learn the basic in a concise format you will be pleased with this book. As a finance professor and practioner (CFA) I have recommended Bandler to numerous students and associates.

As an primer, excellent

This is an excellent little book. For those who are not financial types, but need to have a basic ability for work or personal investing, this is the perfect start. The chapter explaining cash-flow statements is particularly good. I would use this as (1) a launching-point to other, more in-depth books on finance or (2) a review of the basiscs, when you don't want to get bogged down by the minutia, but do need to understand.The auther has an excellent sense for what is important in this subject, how to explain it in words, and how to illustrate it.