Whether you're just beginning to invest in the stock market or have been in the market for many years, there is one skill that can help you make better-informed investment decisions—the ability to read a financial report. With the sixth edition of How to Read a Financial Report, you'll quickly learn how to make sense of the numbers that make up a financial report. Fully revised and updated to reflect the way today's organizations publicly report their financial status, this book will help you understand where a company had been and where it is headed.