How to Write a Financial Report Communicating Critical Financial Signs from the Numbers
"Improve your ability to write and produce financial reports and analyses that are more effective, better understand where information comes from, and obtain a deeper understanding of how financial reports are prepared and how they are used"--
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons, Inc
[2025]
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| Edición: | First edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009853626406719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Exhibits
- Preface
- Part One Financial Report Writing Basics - What You Absolutely Must Know!
- Chapter 1 Communicate or Die!
- Remember the Basics
- It Always Helps to Speak the Language
- A Friendly Reminder About the Era of Technology
- A Final Word About This Book
- Chapter 2 Target Audience "E" - External Users
- The Role and Importance of External Financial Reporting
- Primary External Reporting Drivers
- Types of Externally Prepared Financial Statements
- The Financial Report versus Financial Statements
- Chapter 3 Target Audience "I" - Internal Consumers
- The Basics of Generating Internal Financial Information
- A Deeper Dive and Example of Internal Financial Information
- In Summary - Don't Make These Rookie Mistakes!
- Chapter 4 Introducing CART - To Start, the Big "C," Completeness
- Essential to Understanding the Big Picture
- Barely Acceptable (the World of Small Businesses)
- Better and Appropriate for the External Audience
- Let's Take It Up a Notch to Best in Class
- Completeness Revisited
- Chapter 5 Embracing CART - Accuracy, Reliability, and Timeliness, the Best of Friends
- Producing Reliable Financial Information
- Better Late Than Never, Okay for External Parties
- Better Late Than Never Does Not Fly Internally!
- Reliability, Timeliness, and the Financial Story
- Part Two Financial Statements - The Economic Heartbeat of a Company
- Chapter 6 Understanding the Income Statement
- The Income Statement - A Closer Look
- The Income Statement - for External Users
- The Income Statement - for Internal Consumers
- Chapter 7 Trusting the Balance Sheet
- Reporting Financial Condition: The Balance Sheet for External Users
- The Balance Sheet for Internal Consumers
- Chapter 8 Relying on the Statement of Cash Flows.
- Cash versus Accrual Accounting
- Financial Tasks of Business Managers
- The Statement of Cash Flows for Internal Consumers
- Chapter 9 Connecting the Financial Statement Dots
- One Problem in Financial Reporting
- Connecting the Dots
- Chapter 10 The Significance of Financial Forecasts
- The Importance of Business Forecast Models
- Managing the Forecasting Process
- Increasing the Power and Value of Your Forecast
- Forecast Examples
- Financial Forecasts and the Big Picture
- Part Three The Types and Targets of Financial Reports
- Chapter 11 The Role of Accounting
- A Crash Course in Accounting
- Key Accounting Theories, Concepts, and Trends
- Rounding Out Our Discussion
- Chapter 12 Preparing Financial Reports from Company Financial Statements - External Users
- Financial Reports from Financial Statements - External Users
- A Final Thought
- Chapter 13 Preparing Financial Reports from Company Financial Statements - Internal Consumers
- Financial Reports from Financial Statements - Internal Consumers
- Some Additional Perspective
- Chapter 14 Preparing Financial Reports from Company Financial Information
- The Flash Report
- Key Performance Indicators
- A Second Internal Financial Report Example
- A Few Parting Thoughts
- Chapter 15 Revisiting Our Example Company with a Slight Twist
- Base Case Financial Reports and Story
- Preferred Case Financial Reports and Story
- An Alternative Ending
- A Very Short and Concise Conclusion
- About the Author
- Index
- EULA.
