Financial statement analysis and security valuation

Includes index.

Chapter 1: Introduction to Investing and Valuation Chapter 2: Introduction to the Financial Statements Part One: Financial Statements and Valuation Chapter 3: How Financial Statements Are Used in Valuation Chapter 4: Cash Accounting, Accrual Accounting, and Discounted Cash Flow Valuation Chapter 5: Accrual Accounting and Valuation: Pricing Book Values Chapter 6: Accrual Accounting and Valuation: Pricing Earnings Part Two: The Analysis of Financial Statement Chapter 7: Business Activities and Financial Statements Chapter 8: The Analysis of the Statement of Shareholders' Equity Chapter 9: The Analysis of the Balance Sheet and Income Statement Chapter 10: The Analysis of the Cash Flow Statement Chapter 11: The Analysis of Profitability Chapter 12: The Analysis of Growth and Sustainable Earnings Part Three: Forecasting and Valuation Analysis Chapter 13: The Value of Operations and the Evaluation of Enterprise Price-to- Book Ratios and Price-Earnings Ratios Chapter 14: Simple Forecasting and Simple Valuation Chapter 15: Full-Information Forecasting, Valuation, and Business Strategy Analysis Part Four: Accounting Analysis and Valuation Chapter 16: Creating Accounting Value and Economic Value Chapter 17: Analysis of the Quality of Financial Statements Part Five: The Analysis of Risk Chapter 18 The Analysis of Equity Risk and the Cost of Capital Chapter 19 The Analysis of Credit Risk Appendix A Summary of FormulasIndex

Describes valuation as an exercise in financial statement analysis. This book takes an activist approach to investing, showing how the analyst challenges the market price of a share by analyzing the fundamentals. It helps students to carry out the appropriate financial statement analysis to value the firm's debt and equity.