(Ebook) Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition by Martin Fridson Fernando Alvarez Martin S. Fridson ISBN 9780471264606, 9780471409151, 0471409154, 0471264601

(Ebook) Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide, 3rd Edition by Martin Fridson Fernando Alvarez Martin S. Fridson ISBN 9780471264606, 9780471409151, 0471409154, 0471264601

Praise for Financial Statement AnalysisA Practitioner's GuideThird 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 AccountingLeonard 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. SmallTreasurer Emeritus, University of CaliforniaPartner, 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. FussVice ChairmanLoomis, Sayles & Company, LP