Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis (Hardcover)

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Product Description

Text premise is that students learn financial statement analysis most effectively by performing the analysis on actual companies. Students learn to integrate concepts from economics, business strategy, accounting, and other business disciplines. Text is designed for courses on financial reporting found in accounting, finance, and economics departments. Suitable for both capstone and MBA courses.

About the Author

Clyde P. Stickney is the Signal Companies Professor of Management at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College. He received his doctoral degree from Florida State University and served on the faculties of the University of Chicago and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before joining the faculty of the Tuck School in 1977. He has also taught at the International University of Japan, Swinburne Institute of Technology, and Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration. Professor Stickney's teaching and research interests center around the interpretation and analysis of financial statements. Recent research has examined the impact of different accounting principles on U.S. versus Japanese price-earnings ratios, the use of financial statement ratios to infer the content and to evaluate the success of corporate-level strategies. He has authored and co-authored books on financial accounting, managerial accounting, and financial statement analysis. Professor Stickney is a member of the American Accounting Association. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 944 pages
• Publisher: Dryden Pr; 4th edition (August 19, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0030238110
• ISBN-13: 978-0030238116
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,266,062 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Found the book a nice balance between reporting and analysis, March 24, 1999

By A Customer

As someone who wants finance, accounting, and strategy all in one book, this does a nice job of integrating things. Current examples are great. Access to solutions to cases would be most helpful

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for executives-students, May 15, 1999

By A Customer

A good book and great resource for someone interested in viewing FSA broadly. The authors do not forget the importance of accounting and reporting to analysis, however. Very current.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Treatment of Financial Statement Analysis, July 7, 2005

By	Mr. Clean (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Financial Reporting and Statement Analysis: A Strategic Approach (Hardcover)

I bought this book for my MBA financial stmt analysis class despite a couple of negative reviews here on amazon. I'm glad I did. Contrary to what some have said I found the book to be very well organized - I read it straight through, and now I use it as a reference. It provides a great overview of of statement analysis and does a great job of examining the accounting theory that goes into those statements. This book is definately not for someone who hasn't had any accounting courses previously though - it assumes some level of understanding of basic accounting concepts, which may explain why a couple of the reviewers found it confusing. This is not for you if you are an "investment hobbyist" without much prior accounting. If you're looking to go beyond the basics of debits and credits and need to develop a better understanding of financial statements, this will do it for you. The only thing I would like to have seen is some of the more advanced topics addressed since that seems to be lacking in all fin stmt analysis books out there, but I suppose the book is long enough as it is at 1100 pages!