The Interpretation of Financial Statements, Third Revised Edition

The Interpretation of Financial Statements, Third Revised Edition
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Must read for all amateur investors!

Balance sheet analysis from a master at his trade

Great book for the beginning analyst

The Interpretation of Financial Statements, Third Revised Edition
Benjamin Graham
Manufacturer: Harper & Row
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"All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have."
From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc.

Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer.

The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing.

The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, "if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis."

Written just three years after his landmark Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company.

This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of The Interpretation of Financial Statements, published by Harper & Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended.

Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece The Intelligent Investor.

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THE GUY WHO TAUGHT WARREN.......2007-07-09

Graham is the money lord whose writings formed the basis of Warren BUffett's investing tenets. That should be enough of a basis for those pondering buying this book. This guy taught Buffett! On the other hand, the book is a little tedious, and certainly not for the novice investor. I'd say you should be an intermediate level investor, at least, beforing diving into this creaky book. But if you're patient and willing to stay with it, there are certainly some real pearls of investing wisdom between its pages.

For those desiring a more user friendly investing tome try The Millionaire Mind by Standley, the sequel to The Millionaire Next Door. The Millionaire Mind

Review on Interpretation of FS by BGraham.......2007-01-10

It was a basic explanation of the FS suitable for non-accountants. The texts are brief and concise but very informative.

Recommended to lay persons. A classic BG material!

Must read for all amateur investors!.......2006-11-05

After skimming over the pages of Graham's Security Analysis, I decided to buy this smaller book, which was published few years later. I also noticed a recommendation by Joel Greenblatt in his book "You can be a Stock Market Genius".
People with finance/accounting background may not find this book useful. The book focuses more on items mentioned in the balance sheet and income statement. Cash flow statements weren't published during Graham's time. Later on the book gives important guidelines on some financial ratios. It also talks about calculating tangible book value of any company. Although it may not be useful to value technology/internet and asset-light companies, it would still help an investor calculate the real value of a company.
Good value for your money. This concise book is a must read for all amateur investors!

Balance sheet analysis from a master at his trade.......2005-12-19

For the most part I found Graham's book to be very useful. It is a quick and informative read with some insights on how to make heads or tails of what you are looking at with an annual or quarterly report. Although there was some disappointment with the Income Statement explanation (which, honestly isn't terribly hard to understand), as well as his focus on railroad and utility companies (with some focus on bonds and preferred stocks, which I have no interest in), I found this to be very helpful.

On a whole, this book is excellent for the beginning investor. It is a little out of date, but the core information, as well as reading the words of Graham himself, is worth the read. Graham also applies everything he wrote about to a financial statement, showing exactly what to do, which is an invaluable piece of instruction. Definitely recommend, even if it is for the sample balance sheet analysis alone.

Great book for the beginning analyst.......2005-09-06

Very easy to read. Extremely informative concluding chapter where a set of financial statements are analyzed. The sole downside is that some of the jargon and the accounting principles have changed, so updating will be necessary. But this is the place to cut your teeth.

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A rather random collection of contributions.......2007-02-07

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