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Financial Statements

Financial statements tell investors how good the company is at making money, what they owns and owes, and how they're paying for their operation and future growth.

America's public listed companies required by U.S. securities laws to release a comprehensive accounting and explanation of its financial condition and business prospects at least four times a year. Form 10-K also known as annual report is due 90 days after the close of the company's fiscal year and the government requires the same information reported on quarterly basis as well in form 10-Q which is also known as quarterly report. 10-K and 10-Q reports have a lot of useful information such as financial statements - income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement.

Fundamental analysis require massive amount of numbers being extracted from a company's financial statements; So, in fundamental analysis, it is important to know how to read and interpret financial statements.  This is the cornerstone of learning fundamental analysis well.

Interpret Financial Statements

Learn how to read and interpret financial statements such as income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement is essential for financial ratios analysis, fundamental analysis and value investing.

Income statement also known as profit and loss statement, it tell you whether the company is making profit and incur loss during a particular time period such as quarterly or yearly. Learn the typical structure of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement will help you to interpret and analyze any company financial statements because all of them are structure in the same way.

When you reading any financial statements, have a typical structure in mind and re-arrange or link the items listed in financial statements to the typical format or structure will give you better picture and easy way to interpret and analyze the financial statements.

Balance sheet structure into assets and liabilities, asset session consist of current assets and long term asset where liabilities session consist of current liabilities, long term liabilities and shareholder's equity.

Cash flow statement structure into three session namely operating cash flow session, investing cash flow session and financing cash flow session. Business cash flow and its the business cash flow diagram explained the cash flow between stock investors, bond investors and financial institutes and the cash flow of a typical company in their early state, growth state, maturity state and decline state of the business cycle.