How to Read a Financial Report Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers By John A. Tracy CPA
1999 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0471329355 | PDF | 5 MB
The book does cover the basics well, but my main problem with the book is that it is not formatted very well. Here is a list of my problems below.....1. He shows all these complicated(for beginners) pictures first, then tells you like 20 pages later, "Oh hey don't bother trying to understand them because I will be going over them in depth later in the book." That is just poor teaching.2. He also likes to go over terms and subjects without telling how they relate to anything, so your stuck with all the information with no knowledge of how to use it, then 10-15 pages later he reverts back, "Oh hey you know all that useless knowledge I went over way back when, well this is how you use it." It would have been better if he covered terms, subjects, and usability all in one chapter and not bounce around.3. His opening should have really been, "This is what we are going to cover, don't worry about understanding know, i will cover more in depth later on" along with his complicated picks, then he should have had a list of terms needed in order and not splattered all over several chapters, then do the rest of the book. When I say terms I don't mean every term in the book, what I mean is that the first 25 pages had basics terms used in all chapters, but he spent too much time talking about each one. And whenever you forgot what something meant you have to go back and search trough the 25 pages to find those basic terms. It would have been better to see them all listed out in order.Now with all that said, he did write a good book. When you read the book you come to actually like the author as a person, which probably why he is able to get away with some of the strange formatting of the the book. He also does have moments of nice clarity. Every connection chapter was done fairly well, covering just a basic concept then moving on. So he did do a couple things right, but I do think he could do a better job.