An easy-to-use guide to financial analysis Essentials of Financial Analysis shows how to analyze a company as a prospective investment. This one-stop resource includes a basic introduction to accounting; shows how to use ratio analysis to evaluate a company's profit, liquidity, and solvency; and provides actual financial statements of a variety of companies as illustrations.

* Processes and methods of financial statement analysis
* Framework for evaluating a company's "quality of earnings"
* Identifies potential problem areas that need to be investigated
* Analytical tools and techniques to meet the objectives of different user groups