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Earnings Magic and the Unbalance Sheet: The Search for Financial RealityISBN: 978-0-471-79269-7
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304 pages
July 2006
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SECTION 1: EARNINGS MAGIC AND THE UNBALANCED SHEET.
Chapter 1. What Is Earnings Magic? Does the Balance Sheet Balance?
Chapter 2. Caught in the Act!
Chapter 3. The New Accounting.
Chapter 4. Wading Through the earnings Numbers.
SECTION 2: THE BIG 8 AND DIRTY 30: KEY ACCOUNTING ISSUES THAT SIGNAL EARNINGS MAGIC.
Chapter 5. Key Accounting Issues: An Overview.
Chapter 6. Stock Options.
Chapter 7. Pensions and Other Postemployment Benefits.
Chapter 8. Revenues.
Chapter 9. Earnings, Expenses, and Expectations.
Chapter 10. Strange Special items and Other Things That Should Not Be on the Income Statement.
Chapter 11. Treasury Stock and Dividends.
Chapter 12. Off-Balance Sheet items: Operating Leases and Special-Purpose Entities.
Chapter 13. Acquisitions and All That Goodwill.
Chapter 14. Dishonorable Mention: The Rest of the Dirty 30.
SECTION 3: PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER.
Chapter 15. Finding Signals of Financial Excellence and Earnings Magic.
Chapter 16. A Checklist for Evaluating Financial Excellence.
Chapter 17. An Investment Strategy.
Chapter 18. Searching for Help: Useful Internet Sites.
Epilogue.
Reference.
Index.



