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Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context

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Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context

First Edition   Bergevin, et al., © 2015, 646 pages

This textbook is suitable for a financial statement analysis course.

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About the Authors

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Dr. Peter M. Bergevin is currently Professor of Accounting in the School of Business at the University of Redlands. He has held previous appointments at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo, Trinity University, and the University of Nevada Las Vegas. Pete also chaired the Department of Accounting and Finance at Valdosta State University and served as the Associate Dean of World Business at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. His research has been published in such journals as the The CPA Journal, The Case Research Journal, The Journal of Accounting and Finance Research, and The Journal of Lending and Credit Risk Management. In addition to Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context, Dr. Bergevin has authored a previous text in financial statement analysis and one in accounting.
Michael MacQueen person
Dr. Michael MacQueen is an Associate Professor at the University of Redlands, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate accounting courses. Professor MacQueen holds an MBA with an accounting concentration from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, a BA in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an EdD in organizational leadership from the University of LaVerne. He is a licensed CPA and an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Prior to his appointment at the University of Redlands, Professor MacQueen spent over twenty years working in a variety of positions in the accounting profession.
Laurie Mitchell person
Laurel Bond Mitchell was Director of the undergraduate accounting program at the University of Redlands. She started her career at KPMG, worked in the Enforcement Division and the Office of the Chief Accountant at the Securities and Exchange Commission, and at Ryder System, a public company. She earned a BBA from William and Mary and a Ph.D. from Columbia Business School and was in academia for twenty years. She served as a trustee, audit committee chair, and financial expert for over sixty of the American Funds mutual funds. She was also a board member of California Jump$tart, a nonprofit dedicated to financial literacy. Laurie Mitchell died at the end of 2019.

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The purpose of Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context is to teach students how to interpret financial statements and use that knowledge to make economic decisions. We have written this text for the beginning financial statement analyst in a manner that both engages and challenges students. Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context fosters such learning in a user-friendly environment, one replete with identifiable firms and numerous real-life illustrations.

Pragmatic learning features abound Financial Statement Analysis: Content and

Context. By using this text, students will learn the art, as well as the science, of financial statement analysis. Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context improves students' analytical perception, creativity, and resourcefulness as well as teaching them the quantitative methods underlying financial statement analysis. This text initially uses a simplistic, fictional set of financial disclosures to demonstrate financial statement analysis. It text then leverages that basic skill set to the analysis of such iconic firms as Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Coca-Cola, American Airlines Group, and Hewlett-Packard.

Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context consists of four parts encompassing fifteen chapters. An overview of the financial statement analysis, financial reporting complexities, historical financial statement analyses, and prospective financial analysis are the four main sections of the text. Chapters within each section of the text develop the topics in depth. For example, the third section of the book devoted to historical financial statement analysis examines the roles that liquidity, profitability, and solvency play in analysis and the information they contain for decision-making purposes.

We present numerous sidebars addressing analytic topics and industry information within each chapter. One type of sidebar that appears at multiple points in every chapter is titled My Analysis. These sidebars require students to think about topical issues and answer stimulating questions about financial statement analysis. The other type of in-chapter feature, called Industry Insights, applies the theoretical chapter constructs to five industries featured throughout the text - discount retail, non-alcoholic beverages, air carriers, franchised restaurants, and airlines.

You will probably concur with the authors' assessment that some students struggle to understand the detailed financial disclosures required by generally accepted accounting principles. Knowing the what, how, and why of the financial statements, however, is imperative to sound analysis. Financial Statement Analysis: Content and Context makes extensive use of exhibits and illustrations to help students' master complex financial reporting issues (the thorny details, if you will) in an efficient, effective, and student-oriented manner.



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