Financial Statement Analysis: The Investor's Self-Study to Interpreting & Analyzing Financial Statements, Revised Edition

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Financial Statement Analysis shows stock market investors how to profit from the knowledge, insights and perceptions of professionals who use financial statement analysis tools and techniques on a day-to-day basis. This book is designed to provide the essential basics required to read, interpret and analyze a company's financial statements prior to making important investment decisions. Inside you'll learn:

Horizontal and Vertical Analysis
Common-Size Statements
Financial Ratios
Liquidity and Activity Ratios
Profitability Ratios
Capital Structure
Solvency Ratios

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Do Not Recommend.......2002-03-13

This book is not for the easy minded. It's definitions and explanation are often difficult to follow and needlessly technical. I skimmed most of it rather than reading it end to end. In fact I'm buying another book on financial statement analysis.

I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.

Written by a professor, for other professors.......2001-05-04

This book was a huge disappointment. It is overly technical, dense, and difficult to read. The author uses technical language to such an extent that his information is circular. Technical language to explain technical concepts leaves the reader who is not already an accountant in the dark. Here is an example. "Assets are probably future economic benefits obtained or controlled by a particular entity as a result of past transactions or events. Future economic benefits refers to the capacity of an asset to benefit the enterprise by being exchanged for something else of value to the enterprise, by being used to produce something of value to the enterprise, or by being used to settle its liabilities." (p. 24) If you think this kind of explanation is helpful, you might like this book. I have been in business for 25 years, and to me it is turgid and impossible.

Not really designed for the investor.......1999-10-16

The title of this book is mis-leading and the author missed a golden opportunity to write a book that truly is a self-study guide to interpreting and analyzing financial statements. This book appears to be written by an accountant for accountants - it goes into excessive detail without ever addressing the needs that an investor has. I was looking for a relatively simple, straightforward book that addresses stock selection on the basis of information gleaned from financial statements. This book claims on its back cover to "show stock market investors how to profit from the knowledge of professionals,... " It doesn't do that. It goes into endless, minute detail about statements but never relates it to stock selection. I feel ripped-off.

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Managing Price Risk in Ag Commodity Markets is the definitive guide to risk management in todays volatile agricultural markets. As we move toward the end of the decade and prepare for the 21st century, American farmers face a most uncertain marketplace. Unprecedented changes in farm policy and New World trade agreements are two of the more important reasons why change is assured. It will take a different set of management skills to be profitable in the new marketplace. If it was ever enough to be just an excellent producer, that time is past. The big challenge facing farmers now and in the future is to respond to and manage the risk associated with highly volatile prices. We can help you prepare for that challenge. This book will help farmers like you develop the ability to cope in an uncertain marketplace. It looks at marketing skills and savvy, and develops management strategies that can be used to ensure and protect profitability. Managing Price Risk in Ag Commodity Markets starts with a look at some of the major forces that are changing the marketplace. Then it demonstrates what price risk is and deals with why it is important to you, to the agribusiness firms from whom you buy inputs mean, and to the processors to whom you sell your commodities. Two broad considerations are kept to the how and why of the changing world marketplace. They are responsible for the increased price volatility and risk to American farmers. The first consideration is the 1996 Farm Bill, which changed farm policy in a dramatic way. The second goes back several years and deals with two very important trade agreements: the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (GATT). These two important trade accords expose the American farmer to any and all of the forces that can bring uncertainty to commodity supplies and price variability around the world. The marketplace has indeed changed!

Managing Price Risks in India's Liberalized Agriculture: Can Futures Markets Help

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Managing Price Risks in India's Liberalized Agriculture: Can Futures Markets Help

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Basic Experimental Chemistry: A Laboratory Manual for Beginning Students
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C. B. Anderson
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Basic mathematics for beginning chemistry
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Basic mathematics for beginning chemistry
Dorothy M Goldish
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Basic mathematics for beginning chemistry
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Dorothy M Goldish
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Basic Mathematics for Beginning Chemistry
Dorothy M. Goldish
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Basic Mathematics for Beginning Chemistry;
Dorothy M., Goldish
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Cometary and Solar Plasma Physics: Invited Reviews of the 1987 Plasma Physics College International Centre for Theoretical Physics
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Interaction of Intense Laser Radiation with Matter: Excitation of Atomic Nuclei in Hot Laser Plasma Decay of Isomeric Nuclei in Intense External Field (Soviet Technology Reviews Series, Section B)
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Interaction of Intense Laser Radiation with Matter: Excitation of Atomic Nuclei in Hot Laser Plasma Decay of Isomeric Nuclei in Intense External Field (Soviet Technology Reviews Series, Section B)
R. Arutyunian
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Non-Linear Dynamics and Acceleration of Ions when a Plasma Expands into a Plasma (Soviet Scientific Reviews Series, Section A)
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Non-Linear Dynamics and Acceleration of Ions when a Plasma Expands into a Plasma (Soviet Scientific Reviews Series, Section A)
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.2-A; August, 1994;,Part A
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.2-A; August, 1994;,Part A
Iwwin; (Ed.) Oppenheim
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.2-B; August, 1994;,Part 2
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.3; September, 1994
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.3; September, 1994
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.4; October, 1994
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.4; October, 1994
Iwwin; (ed.) Oppenheim
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 50, No.5; November, 1994
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Iwwin; (Ed.) Oppenheim
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 51, No.1; January, 1995
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 51, No.1; January, 1995
Iwwin; (ed.) Oppenheim
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Physical Review E: Statistical Physics, Plasmas, Fluids, And Interdisciplinary Topicss: Third Series, Vol. 51, No.2; February, 1995
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Iwwin; (ed.) Oppenheim
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In this new addition to his popular series, Nigel Cawthorne turns his gaze to the sex lives of gay icons in film, the arts, history, politics, and religion.

Over the years, some gay men, such as Oscar Wilde, have suffered for their sexuality. Others, like Quentin Crisp, have made a career out of it. Noel Coward was overtly camp; J. Edgar Hoover hid his sexuality while persecuting other homosexuals. British playwright Joe Orton died because his partner could not accept his sexual needs, while for Japanese novelist Yukio Mishima, death itself was a sexual act. Sex Lives of the Famous Gays contains a richly diverse collection of gay lives—from the noble and heroic to the outrageous and compellingly weird. Its cast includes poets, playwrights, novelists, soldiers, dancers, film directors, actors, and entertainers.

Sex Lives of the Rich and Famous (Sex Lives of The....)
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Big man, big prick; small man, all prick

Sex Lives of the Rich and Famous (Sex Lives of The....)
Andrea Love
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Sex Lives of Hollywood Idols (Sex Lives)

ASIN: 1853755486

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Here are the notorious sex lives of history’s great and good, from film icons and rock stars to presidents, politicians, popes, and power–brokers.

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Big man, big prick; small man, all prick.......2005-08-23

This book is surely an amalgam of facts and gossip. It has no references and no index. It shows already spelling faults in the names. So, it is not recommendable as a prime source of information for serious scholars.

Nevertheless, its overall picture exposes one clear message: the blatant hypocrisy of the powerful, be they popes, emperors, tsars, kings, queens, princes, Khedives, Shahs, politicians or noblemen. Their maxim is 'Do as I say, not as I do.'
Those who became rich (merchants, movie stars, artists) emulated them (T. Veblen).
It proves mightily that 'power equals women'.

On the other hand, some 'famous' names figuring in thus book are clearly 'victims' of this double standard hypocrisy: child prostitutes, courtesans, members of the demi-monde or findings of the casting couch.

As L. Betzig said in her magisterial book 'Despotism and Differential Reproduction': 'All end of human life is its reproduction, and positions of strenght are exploited to this end.'

This 'shocking' book is a powerful exposé.

Las Vidas Sexuales De Los Idolos De Hollywood/ Sex Lives of the Hollywood Idols

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Las Vidas Sexuales De Los Idolos De Hollywood/ Sex Lives of the Hollywood Idols
Nigel M. Cawthorne
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Not So Secret

Secret Sex Lives Of The Rich And Famous
Andrea Love
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The sex lives of artists and actresses, politicians and rock-stars, kings and generals, presidents and princesses, and anyone who has ever made the headlines are revealed in detail as their activities in the boudoir take their notoriety to another dimension. Among the famous names you'll find inside: Marilyn Monroe, Oscar Wilde, Aristotle Onassis, Eva Peron, James Dean, Hitler, Mussolini and Picasso.

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Not So Secret.......2005-10-06

I bought this book because Chaplin is mentioned in it. The book does reveal some juicy details about people like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, & Ava Gardener, but on others they hardly mention their "sex lives." Its more of a book about who dated who rather than who slept with who.

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