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A witty, concise and delightfully logical guide for the high-tech entrepreneur. Everything you need to know, but not a line more. Im already recommending it to the faculty, students and business colleagues who are starting companies.

Lita Nelsen
Director, Technology Licensing Office
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts

I wish this book were around when I started my first company. The entrepreneur can learn in one evenings reading what it took me two years of learning-by-doing! I plan on giving a copy to every CEO in our venture funds portfolio.

Gordon B. Baty
Partner, Zero Stage Capital
Cambridge, Massachusetts

5 Star Reviews from Amazon.com Readers

The Best Book on Financial Statements, Period! Wow, what a great book! Im a technical professional and now no longer in the financially confused majority.

Robert I. Hedges (Burnsville, MN)

Simply the Best! Clearly the first introductory book one should read. This booka must on every managers shelfadds value by providing clear and concise definitions and relates them visually to the changing financial statements. A tremendous bang for buck. Simply go get it and read it.

ClimbHigh

The author has a gift that few experts have . He anticipates all my newbie/beginner stupid questions As soon as the little voice in my head asks, But why did they do it this way? the author gives me the answer. This book has been of enormous value to me. It is an essential reference for anyone who needs to understand what business finances are about.

M. Kramer (United States)

A Masterpiece. Every single financial term is clarified with a laymans language. Moreover, for every single term, there is a very understandable example. Likewise, in every page there is a sheet explaining all the transactions. I strongly believe that this book is a masterpiece for non-financial managers.

a reader

Excellent! I purchased this book for an MBA course and ended up using it more than the assigned text. The author makes a complicated subject seem like childs play!

Bill Holcomb (Cleveland, OH)

Perfect book when first learning This is a wonderfully clear and concise introduction to the interpretation of financial statements Read this if you are not a CPA or MBA, but must get a handle on Balance Sheets, Income Statements and Cash Flow Statements. This should be the first book you buy.

Jack Fossen (Dallas, TX)

Outstanding!! Looking to understand how financial statements work?...then purchase this book theres none better. I am a graduate student nearing the completion of my MBA degree. The author speaks in basic terms about what financial statements mean and how they work. This book puts it all together for the reader.

Joseph P. Gallagher (Bellinghan, WA)

A very useful book . While the book gets only skin deep on accounting concepts, it does an excellent job in deconstructing how the Income Statement, Statement of Cash Flows, and Balance Sheet are changed. Very few accounting related books make explicit what happens the way this book does.

R. Chonchol (Florida)

Want to understand financial statements? I took an accounting class...and I had difficulty interpreting financial statements. So I gambled and bought this book with a hope to unravel the mystery on financial statements. It really worked! Overall, the knowledge gained exceeds multiple folds of the time and money invested on this book!

Tuan minh Tran

Excellent, buy it!! If you are in the finance business, of any kind, and you are not an accountant, this book is for you.

Richard Gomez (San Diego, CA)

WOW, Incredible. I took an accounting course at University, I now wish that my professor used this book in the course. So easy to understand and with great examples. Suitable for anyone who wants to learn accounting the fast and easy way.

Kavkazy (Toronto, Canada)

Revised and Expanded Edition

Financial Statements

A Step-by-Step Guide
to Understanding
and Creating
Financial Reports

by Thomas R. Ittelson

Copyright 2009 by Thomas R. Ittelson

All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION
Cover design by Jeff Piasky
Printed in the U.S.A. by Courier

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Available upon request.

I dedicate this book to Alesdair, who has had the good
sense to become a lawyer and not an accountant.

Acknowledgments

Many people helped make this book possible. My special thanks go to Isay Stemp, who first showed me that knowing a little finance and accounting could be fun; to my agent, Michael Snell, who taught me how to write a book proposal; and to Lisa Berkman, whose encouragement was invaluable as I drafted this revised and expanded edition.

Many thanks to my publisher, Ronald Fry of Career Press, for seeing promise in a preliminary version of this book and to Kristen Parkes, editorial director for Career Press, for her guiding of this book through to publication.

Again with this second edition, as was the case with the first, I am indebted to my colleague Jack Turner for his thoughtful review of the words and numbers in this book. Also a special thanks to Graham Eacott for his careful reading and correction of the first edition.

These clients, colleagues and friends at one time or another helped me to develop (whether they realized it or not) the concepts presented in this book. My thanks to Gwen Acton, Marci Anderson, Molly Downer, Tim Duncan, Cavas Gobhai, Jack Haley, Katherine Leahey, Paul McDonough, Lita Nelsen, Paul OBrien, Mel Platte, and Iruna and Chris Simmons.

Preface

If the first edition of this book was an entrepreneurial business, it would be a huge success. Now over 100,000 copies of Financial Statements: A Step-by-Step Guide to Understanding and Creating Financial Reports are in-press and helping non-financial managers and students of accounting and finance cope with the numbers of business.

With this new revised second edition, we have expanded the book into five sections from the original three. Many readers of the first edition wanted to better understand capital investment decision-making, which is the focus of our two new sections.

Capital is often a companys scarcest resource, and using capital wisely is essential for success. The chief determinant of what a company will become is the capital investments it makes today. So in this new edition, we will use the financial analysis techniques of net present value (NPV) and internal rate of return (IRR) as capital investment decision-making tools

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