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Running head: Analyzing Financial Statements

Analyzing Financial Statements
Tina Borntrager
University of Phoenix
MBA/503
Introduction to Finance and Accounting
George Peterson
January 16, 2008

Within this particular written work, one will be able to "identify the audience, nature and purpose of financial statements, interpret comparative analysis, calculate key financial ratios, evaluate the analysis tools and find business alternatives using these types of statements." (UOP, 2007).
When one speaks of the audience, nature and purpose of financial statements, they are indicating measurements of profitability which is what one would call an (income statement), the cash flow or the change that exists in the "cash position" of the firm and the balance sheet, which shows the assets and how those assets are financed. (Block, 2005).
The income statements can give a company the necessary view of adequate measurements for loss or gain within a certain period. An income......

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