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Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition

Martin Fridson Fernando Alvarez

Financial Statement Analysis

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Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition

Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner’s Guide Third Edition

"This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." –Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School

"Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone who puts a dime to work in the securities markets or recommends that others do the same." –Jack L. Rivkin Executive Vice President (retired) Citigroup Investments

"Fridson and Alvarez provide a valuable practical guide for understanding, interpreting, and critically assessing financial reports put out by firms. Their discussion of profits–‘quality of earnings’–is particularly insightful given the recent spate of reporting problems encountered by firms. I highly recommend their book to anyone interested in getting behind the numbers as a means of predicting future profits and stock prices." –Paul Brown Chair–Department of Accounting Leonard N. Stern School of Business, NYU

"Let this book assist in financial awareness and transparency and higher standards of reporting, and accountability to all stakeholders." –Patricia A. Small Treasurer Emeritus, University of California Partner, KCM Investment Advisors

"This book is a polished gem covering the analysis of financial statements. It is thorough, skeptical and extremely practical in its review." –Daniel J. Fuss Vice Chairman Loomis, Sayles & Company, LP

Publisher	Wiley
Release date	03/2002
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Edition	Hardcover

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Comments by amazon customers about Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition

Ledu Critiques
Worbook provide the interaction needed to keep abreast on financial statements analysis.Also to generate red flags for further review.

Great qualitative explanations and horrible math derivations
If you want to get a big picture on the analysis of financial statements, this is a wonderful book. However, I've gotten really frustrated as I progress onto the latter half of the book where the authors jump through multiple steps, do not provide detailed explanations about their calculations, and make outright mistakes about summation of geometric series in the dividend model.

Not worth the money
Very surface coverage...at about $1.00 per page you should get more in depth analysis. Entire format of the book is very strange.

Not recommended for Credit Analysts
This book is very basic. The solutions book for this book is difficult to read and I did not go anywhere with it. It is probably much better for a general overview of financial shenanigans than anything. If you are a credit analyst then a much better book and much more in depth analysis (not accounting though) is Financial Statement Analysis by John J. Wild and others. Get the CD though if possible because it will help out greatly.

Great Value
I'm not a financial analyst but I'm interested in analysing companies for my own investments. I found the book easy to read. It's a big eye-opener for someone who was not aware of all the accounting gimmicks that aggressive companies can play. I'm certainly a better investor now. That being said, please note that this book won't tell you much about what you need to do to value a company and invest in it. It will help you spot troublesome companies and accounting tricks that don't look right, but after that you're on your own. You need more than this book to be a good investor, but this book is a pretty important part of being a good investor.