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Hi my name is Jerry Peretti I'm a professor of finance and today I'd like to talk to you about financial statement analysis financial statements can be daunting it really means understanding and learning a different language, and today I'd like to help you understand that language and more importantly help you understand the story that financial statements can tell you about an organization when we think about financial statements there's generally three types of financial statements they're all based on the same cash flows, but they have different purposes and ultimately they have different points of view the first is what I would call the external statements these are the statements that are provided to investors and others to give a general perspective of how the organization is doing in the U.S. they're put into a format a common format across companies using what's known as generally accepted accounting principles or GAAP and for international companies they're put into a format using a set of standard rules called international financial reporting standards or IFRS and so basically what the accounting organizations through the government regulatory bodies have done is that they have created these standardized formats that companies must report on so that no matter what industry you're looking at or what type of your company you're trying to analyze you can see the information in a commonly accepted format that's the idea the reality is a little different because unfortunately even though it's in a common format there are lots of exceptions and lots of nuances and that's one of the things that we're going to discuss here today but the key point and the key purpose of these statements is to provide information to investors and creditors to help them understand how the company is doing so that companies can attract capital in the U.S. a good source for information on financial statements is actually the US government WWE SEC gov which is the Securities Exchange Commission website they have a database called Edgar and the financial statements of publicly traded companies in the US are available there electronically free of charge and pretty much real-time from the point that the company discloses them on an annualized basis a company's and your report is called a Form 10-k in the U.S. a quarterly report is called a Form 10-q and any significant information that has to be reported between the quarterly reports is filed on what's called a Form 8-k all of those are freely available at this website and many Investor Services will call this website to gather information based on what is reported by companies second type of reporting is what I like to think of as internal or management reporting this is how a company looks at itself and how it evaluates itself main challenge with that is there really are no rules that companies have to follow companies can choose to evaluate themselves any way they want, and they often do now they're loosely based...