The Secret Language of Financial Reports: The Back Stories That Can Enhance Your Investment Decisions

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The Secret Language of Financial Reports: The Back Stories That Can Enhance Your Investment Decisions

Authors: Mark Haskins

Published: December 2007

eISBN: 9780071545549 0071545549 | ISBN: 9780071545532

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Secret #1 There’s a Corporate Financial Trilogy: How many financial stories does a company really tell?

Secret #2 It’s Storytelling: With characters, plot, and action

Secret #3 It’s a Language: What do those new words mean?

Secret #4 There’s a Trilogy within the Trilogy: The BS, the IS, and the SCF

Secret #5 It’s as Simple as 1-2-3: It’s all about ins and outs; ups and downs!

Secret #6 It’s Old News: Is it relevant, reliable, neither, or both?

Secret #7 It’s Full of Choices: What’s your pleasure?

Secret #8 It’s Imprecise: Give it your best guess!

Secret #9 It’s Incomplete: Something is missing

Secret #10 It’s Blessed (Most of the Time): Of controls and certifications

Secret #11 It’s Important: Perfect? No! Useful? Yes!

Secret #12 It’s a Global Challenge: Can’t we all just get along?

Secret #13 It’s Political: Let’s make a deal

Secret #14 It’s Not Always as Simple as 1-2-3: Four issues for the experts

Notes

Acronym Appendix

Glossary

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Index