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How to Read a Financial Report

Learn how to read, understand, analyze, and interpret different types of financial reports. This book also reveals the various connections between different financial metrics, reports, and statements, discusses changes in accounting and finance reporting rules, current practices, and recent trends, and explains how financial information can be manipulated, such as through inclusion or omission of certain KPIs. 

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Working for Yourself

The all-in-one legal and tax resource every independent contractor and freelancer needs. Whether you're starting a full-scale consulting business or booking jobs on the side, Working for Yourself provides all the legal and tax information you need in one place. 

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Our Least Important Asset

A comprehensive and insightful look at the modern workplace and how employees are managed, where the new approach is driven by the quirks of financial accounting to the detriment of employees and the long-term success of the organization.

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Taxes 101

Learn the ins and outs of paying taxes with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-navigate guide to the US tax system. This all-in-one financial resource lays the foundation with basic information about the tax system so you can make better choices about your financial wellness.

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Mastering Quickbooks 2025

This new edition of the bestselling guide to the QuickBooks Online accounting software comes with a free PDF eBook, plus bonus chapters and video tutorials from the author on reconciling transactions, the Report Center, and more.

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NFTs and Cryptocurrencies

Both nonfungible tokens (NFTs) and cryptocurrencies are relatively new forms of digital assets. This volume explains this complex topic and offers various viewpoints on the benefits and disadvantages of these assets.

Spotlight on Accounting, Tax, and Banking Collection

The Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection database brings together global scholarly journals with other key resources for access to reliable information in this continuously evolving area of study. Quickly locate precise results from sources ranging from current news to professional and academic journal articles covering the trends and history influencing important accounting, tax, banking, and financial issues of the day.

 

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Financial Reporting for Business Series

Accounting reports convey information about cash, profit and financial position to the owner and key stakeholders of a business. This series explores the content and format of the three key accounting reports: the balance sheet, the profit and loss statement, and the cash flow statement.

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TedEd: How Does the Stock Market Work?

In the 1600s, the Dutch East India Company employed hundreds of ships to trade goods around the globe. In order to fund their voyages, the company turned to private citizens to invest money to support trips in exchange for a share of the profits. In doing so, they unknowingly invented the world's first stock market. So how do companies and investors use the market today? Oliver Elfenbaum explains.

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Why We Pay Income Taxes

Income tax is seen as a part of American life, but this wasn't always the case. Why did Uncle Sam start taking a slice out of citizens' pockets?