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The Agile Manager's Guide to Understanding Financial Statements
The Agile Manager’s Guide To
UNDERSTANDING
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Agile Manager’s Guide To
UNDERSTANDING
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
By Joseph T. Straub
Velocity Business Publishing
Bristol, Vermont USA
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For Pat and Stacey
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Copyright © 1997 by Joseph T. Straub
All Rights Reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 97-90831
ISBN 0-9659193-5-8
Title page illustration by Elayne Sears
Second printing, April 1999
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C ontents
1. Financial Statements:
Who Needs Them ........................................................... 9
4. Understand the Cash-Flow Statement .......................... 37
5. Financial Analysis:
Number-Crunching for Profit ...................................... 45
6. Inventory Valuation
(Or, What’s It Worth?) ................................................... 67
7. Depreciation.................................................................. 77
Index .................................................................................. 93
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