Company Annual and Financial Reports

An annual report is a powerful and revealing document about a company's financial standing. If you know what you're looking for, it can give you substantial insight about where the company may be headed in the future. Annual Reports 101 gets past the PR machine to show the meaning behind the spin. This ultra-practical guide shows you how to thoroughly translate and read "between the lines" of the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow report, and the accompanying text.

A plain-English user's guide to financial reports. This updated edition features new information on the move toward separate financial and accounting reporting standards for private companies, the emergence of websites offering financial information, pending changes in the auditor's report language and what this means to investors, and requirements for XBRL tagging in reporting to the SEC, among other topics.

This book is intended to help professionals gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner.

This new, completely updated edition of Financial Intelligence brings the numbers up to date and continues to teach the basics of finance to managers who need to use financial data to drive their business. Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, it gives nonfinancial managers the confidence to understand the nuance beyond the numbers--to help bring everyday work to a new level.

Brown provides step-by-step instructions and detailed analysis of Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, highlighting areas in which your company can implement or refine its disclosure controls and procedures in order to ensure accurate and timely filings. This one-stop resource is enhanced with compliance practice pointers and more than a dozen appendices containing related forms, checklists, regulations, and SEC guidance.