This book is written in a clear, easy-to-follow format to make accounting more accessible than via traditional accounting textbooks. It provides the necessary tools for those who seek to efficiently gain a basic accounting and financial statement analysis skill set that can be directly applied to actual real world financial statement analysis, and is filled with exercises that test and reinforce covered concepts. Topicscovered include: Introduction to Accounting; Basic Accounting Principles; Financial Reporting (10-K, 10-Q, 8-K); Reading an Annual Report; Financial Statements (Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement), and Ratio Analysis.