Earnings Magic And The Unbalance Sheet The Search For Financial Reality 1st Edition Gary A Giroux by Gary A Giroux 9780471768555, 0471768553 instant download after payment.

" Wouldn't you like to know as much as you could about a company before you invest in it? Financial information on companies is readily available, but not necessarily easy to interpret. With shrewd tips and state-of-the-art analytical tools, Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet arms you with the key strategies and principles to help you evaluate whether a company's bottom line is headed toward excellence or financial abuse. This eye-opening guide expertly walks you through the tangle of potentially inflated earnings and misleading accounting disclosures to determine a company's financial reality."--Publisher's website.
Content: Preface. SECTION 1: EARNINGS MAGIC AND THE UNBALANCED SHEET. Chapter 1. What Is Earnings Magic? Does the Balance Sheet Balance? Chapter 2. Caught in the Act! Chapter 3. The New Accounting. Chapter 4. Wading Through the earnings Numbers. SECTION 2: THE BIG 8 AND DIRTY 30: KEY ACCOUNTING ISSUES THAT SIGNAL EARNINGS MAGIC. Chapter 5. Key Accounting Issues: An Overview. Chapter 6. Stock Options. Chapter 7. Pensions and Other Postemployment Benefits. Chapter 8. Revenues. Chapter 9. Earnings, Expenses, and Expectations. Chapter 10. Strange Special items and Other Things That Should Not Be on the Income Statement. Chapter 11. Treasury Stock and Dividends. Chapter 12. Off--Balance Sheet items: Operating Leases and Special--Purpose Entities. Chapter 13. Acquisitions and All That Goodwill. Chapter 14. Dishonorable Mention: The Rest of the Dirty 30. SECTION 3: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER. Chapter 15. Finding Signals of Financial Excellence and Earnings Magic. Chapter 16. A Checklist for Evaluating Financial Excellence. Chapter 17. An Investment Strategy. Chapter 18. Searching for Help: Useful Internet Sites. Epilogue. Reference. Index.
Abstract: Earnings Magic and The Unbalance Sheet provides investors with insights on the financial environment and analytical tools to best approximate corporate financial reality. It will enable investors to make better financial decisions by recognising companies with poor and deceptive disclosure quality.