Part I: getting down to financial reporting basics
Recognizing business types and their tax rules
Public or private: How company structure affects the books
Digging into accounting basics
Part II: checking out the big show: Annual Reports
Exploring the anatomy of an annual report
Balancing assets against liabilities and equity
Using the income statement
The statement of cash flows
Scouring the notes to the financial statements
Considering consolidated financial statements
Part III: analyzing the numbers
Testing the profits and market value
Making sure the company has cash to carry on
Part IV: understanding how companies optimize operations
How reports help with basic budgeting
Turning up clues in turnover and assets
Examining cash inflow and outflow
How companies keep the cash flowing
Part V: the many ways companies answer to others
Finding out how companies find errors: the auditing process
Digging into government regulations
Creating a global financial reporting standard
Checking out the analyst-corporation connection
How companies communicate with shareholders
Keeping score when companies play games with numbers
Part VI: the part of tens
Ten financial scandals that rocked the world
Ten signs that a company's in trouble
