<p>For business courses such as financial statement analysis, personal finance, and financial planning and analysis.</p><h3>An analytical approach to understanding business financial statements</h3><p><strong>Understanding Financial Statements</strong> provides students with the conceptual background and analytical tools to understand and interpret business financial statements. The text helps boost readers'' confidence in analyzing these documents as well as understanding a firm''s historical, current, and prospective financial condition and performance.</p><p>Following the previous editions, the <strong>12th Edition</strong> continues to showcase superior readability, concise coverage, and accessibility. It features new cases and enhanced learning tools to help students make sense of complex financial information, so that they can make sound, profitable business decisions.</p>