Chapter survival toolkit
Overview
The previous few chapters have covered all of the key financial statements, and a few incidental ones. The next few pages move on to look at how you analyse and interpret them together, and also how you compare published figures between companies. Accounting ratios and foreign currency issues are introduced here, and developed in the next couple of chapters.
Prerequisites
Ideally, you should be up to speed with the previous four chapters before reading this one.
Mastering financial analysis
After reading this chapter, you should be able to answer the following questions:
| 1 | How do index numbers help you when interpreting trends in reported figures? |
| 2 | Three factors which make inter-company financial comparisons ... |
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