Financial statement analysis
a practitioner's guide
by Martin S. Fridson · first published 1991
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Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how they can be used to analyze the financial health of a company." -Professor Jay O. Light Harvard Business School "Financial Statement Analysis should be required reading for anyone who puts a dime to work in the securities markets or recommends that others do the same." -Jack L. Rivkin Executive Vice President (retired) Citigroup Investments "Fridson and Alvare
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…Predators' Ball: Inside Story of Drexel Burnham and Rise of Junk Bond Raiders Fisher, Philip (2003) Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits and Other Writings, 2nd ed. Fridson, Martin and Fernando Alvarez (2002) Financial Statement Analysis, 3rd ed. Graham, Benjamin, J. Zweig, D. Dodd (2006/08) Intelligent Investor, rev ed; Security Analysis, 6th ed. Greenblatt, Joel (1999) You Can Be a Stock Market Genius Greenwald, Kahn, Sonkin, Biema…
on “Ask HN: Book recommendations for understanding financial systems?” ↗…what is out there. The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham. The book the created the Value Investing philosophy, by Warren Buffet's teacher. Buffet was the only student in that class to get an A+. Financial Statement Analysis, Fridson and Alvarez. How to read corporate reports and papers; whatever the CFOs want you to see,. The Secrets of Economic Indicators, Bernard Baumohl. How to read the whole economy's report cards.…
on “Everything Paul Buchheit has bought from Amazon in the last 3 years” ↗…are usually dumbed down. With OP being technical they should be able to learn the finance stuff on their own. I'd venture to say with a solid understand of financial accounting they can probably learn financial statement analysis on their own too. I really like this book: https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statement-Analysis-Practiti...
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