Put the most valuable business tool to work for you! The balance sheet is the key to everything--from efficient business operation to accurate assessment of a company’s worth. It’s a critical business resource--but do you know how to read it? How to Read a Balance Sheet breaks down the subject into easy-to-understand components. If you're a business owner or manager, this book helps you . . . Manage working capital Generate higher returns on assets Maximize your inventory dollars Evaluate investment opportunities If you're an investor, this book helps you . . . Determine the market value of a company's assets and operations Predict future earnings and trends Assess the impact of capital expenditures Identify potential "red flags" before the crowd How to Read a Balance Sheet gives you the bottom line of what you need to know about: Cash Flow * Assets * Debt * Equity * Profit and how it all comes together.

The purpose of this book is to help readers understand the basics of understanding financial statements. Material covered includes a step-by-step instruction on how to read and understand the balance sheet, the income statement, and the cash flow statement. It also covers information about how these three statements are interconnected with one another.

Finance Made Easy Series has been designed to cater to managers and executives with little understanding of finance and little time to read treatises on it. How to Read a Balance Sheet focuses on Balance Sheet, arguably the most important and revealing of all financial statements of any business organization. A lucid, creative and concise exposition of financial statements, their components, jargon and computational methods along with short stories and numerical examples makes for an engaging read for busy professionals.

"All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have." From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc. Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer. The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, The Intelligent Investor and Security Analysis, as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing. The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, "if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis." Written just three years after his landmark Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company. This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of The Interpretation of Financial Statements, published by Harper & Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended. Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece The Intelligent Investor.

Examines the intricacies of balance sheet interpretation in the fields of commerce and industry. The book is designed to act as a learning tool and revisionary aid for students but would be of use to anyone involved in presenting and/or interpreting balance sheets.

This highly successful international textbook on work study by the International Labour Office has been adapted by the editors to suit the needs of readers in India. While attempting this, the editors have tried to maintain the lucidity inherent in the ILO edition, and as such have tried to maintain the same framework and accordingly have reproduced verbatim from the ILO edition wherever required. Contents: Productivity and Work Study: Productivity Concept and Definitions / Productivity in the Individual Enterprise / Techniques for Productivity Improvement / Work Study / The Human Factor in the Application of Work Study / The Influence of Working Conditions on Work Study / Method Study: Introduction to Method Study and the Selection of Job / Record, Examine, Develop / Flow and handling of Materials / Tools for recording the Movement of Workers / Methods and Movements at the Workplace / Define, Install, Maintain / Work Measurement: General Remarks on Work Measurement / Work Sampling / Time Study: The Equipment / Time Study: Selecting and Timing the Job / Time Study: Rating - Determination of basic time from Observed Time / Time Study: From Study to Standard Time / Setting Time Standards for Man-Machine Systems / Example of a Time Study / Predetermined Time Standards (PTS) / Standard Data / The Uses of Time Standard / Two Integrated Exercises: Two Integrated Exercises / From Analysis to Synthesis: New Forms of Work Organisation: Combined Methods and Tasks: New Forms of Work Organisation