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Learn how to read, understand, analyze, and interpret different types of financial reportsIn the newly revised and updated 10th Edition of How to Read a Financial Report, seasoned accounting, financial, and business consultant Tage C. Tracy guides readers through reading, understanding, analyzing, and interpreting various types of financial reports, including cash flow, financial condition, and profit performance reports. This book also reveals the various connections between different financial metrics, reports, and statements, discusses changes in accounting and finance reporting rules, current practices, and recent trends, and explains how financial information can be manipulated, such as through inclusion or omission of certain KPIs. This bestselling guide uses jargon-simplified and easy-to-understand language to make the information accessible to all, regardless of finance or accounting background.
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Tage (pronounced "Tog", of Scandinavian decent) Tracy has operated a financial consulting service firm during the past twenty (20) years focused on providing executive level accounting, financial, & strategic business planning management support on a project or interim basis. Tage's extensive knowledge and expertise gained from his consulting work has provided the basic framework and knowledge to co-author four books with his Father, retired professor John A. Tracy, titled How to Read a Financial Report - Enhanced Version (set for release January 2014), Cash Flow for Dummies (released in November of 2011), Small Business Financial Management Kit for Dummies (released in August of 2007) and How to Manage Profit & Cash Flow (released in August of 2004). John A. Tracy has previously authored successful business books including How to Read a Financial Report and Accounting for Dummies.All of these books have been specifically designed and structured to assist not only accounting and financial types with broadening their understanding but more importantly, to provide content for the vast number of non-accounting/financial types that what to improve their knowledge with this type of subject matter (which is often foreign, confusing, and frustrating to grasp). So whether the message is delivered via one of the aforementioned books, directly by Tage from his consulting firm, or in mass through retaining Tage for seminars, educational events, and/or training requirements, the goal remains the same: TRANSLATE COMPLEX & CONFUSING ACCOUNTING & FINANCIAL TOPICS into SIMPLE & EASY to USE BUSINESS TOOLS EVERYONE CAN UNDERSTAND!Tage's areas of expertise within his consulting firm include mergers & acquisitions ($90 million of closed transactions since mid 2012), capital resource, liquidity, and cash flow management, business valuations, accounting system design/structuring, risk management strategies, financial structure & resources, strategic planning, debt and equity sources, company restructuring and turnaround strategies, litigation support, company termination/liquidations plans, and similar issues (reach directly at tcttmk@tracyandtracybooks.com).
