Analysis of Financial Statements (Hardcover, 5th edition)

Turn financial statements into powerful allies in your decision making

Whether youre an investor, creditor, consultant, regulator, manager-or an employee concerned about your companys well-being and the stability of your job-the ability to successfully interpret and analyze financial statements gives you a leg up in todays rough-and-tumble marketplace. Analysis of Financial Statements, Fifth Edition, by Leopold A. Bernstein and John J. Wild, gives you every practical, up-to-date method for making the data in financial statements clear and meaningful. You get analytical tools that range from computation of ratio and cash flow measures to earnings prediction and valuation as you learn how to reconstruct the economic reality embedded in financial statements. User-friendly and engaging, this hands-on classic is loaded with graphs, charts, and tables, so you can see how topics relate to the business practices of actual companies. A concluding comprehensive case analysis of the Campbell Soup Company gives shape and color to the authors step-by-step lessons.