What is your favourite, no BS, ONE book on financial statement analysis that teaches you in SIMPLE LANGUAGE
how to analyse financial statement of a company
what line items to focus on and what not etc?
I recently read a good one called Financial Shenanigans that teaches you how to detect fraud in a company.
Am looking for some BEST books on financial analysis
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There's a dude teaching at Columbia named Doron Nissim, he has several materials on analysing financials & spotting weird patterns (not necessarily fraud but like leading indicators for future drops in performance). He's quite dry but the materials are pretty good and, crucially, quite actionable.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3794378
That's the 530 page paper he gives to students, you can use it as a tool to specifically research line items.
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Incredibly helpful. Thank you!
np
Btw do you find the primer helpful for US GAAP companies only, or they are helpful for IFRS companies too?
I see there are pages on comparison between the 2 standards
Yes, as long as one figures out the flow of a non-US company's annual reports.
thanks Dick, you are the best
np!
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A challenging read, but incredibly valuable nonetheless. Thanks!
This is amazing! Thanks for sharing!
I’m also reading “Quality of earnings”, a book written back in 1998, but seems to be legit based on reviews.
And other no BS primer / book on accounting characteristics of companies in DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES?
Like one that explains financial statement for industry A company tend to be xxx, while for industry B company tend to be yyy, because of zzz those kinds of things
Creative Cash Flow Reporting has always been a favorite
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