Financial Analysis for Leaders

5 chapters, 14 sections, about 5 hours 19 minutes of reading in total.

1. Setting the Stage 29 min
   • 1.1 Why We Dread This, and What to Do Instead 14 min
   • 1.2 Financial Statements as Stories 15 min
2. The Income Statement 44 min
   • 2.1 When Is a Sale a Sale? 15 min
   • 2.2 What Counts as a Cost, and When 11 min
   • 2.3 What a P&L Tells You 18 min
3. The Balance Sheet 94 min
   • 3.1 The Accounting Equation 27 min
   • 3.2 The Balance Sheet at Work 40 min
   • 3.3 The Classified Balance Sheet 27 min
4. Profits, Cash, and the Cash Flow Statement 46 min
   • 4.1 Profits Are Not Cash 14 min
   • 4.2 The Cash Flow Statement 32 min
5. Analysis 106 min
   • 5.1 Compared to What? 34 min
   • 5.2 The Four Families of Ratios 26 min
   • 5.3 Decomposing Return 20 min
   • 5.4 Diagnosing a Business from its Statements 26 min

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