Understanding Financial Statements (8th Edition) – Lyn Fraser, Aileen Ormiston

A supplementary text for a variety of Business courses, including Financial Statement Analysis, Principles of Financial Accounting, Intermediate Accounting, Investments, Personal Finance, and Financial Planning and Analysis.

Understanding Financial Statements, retains its reputation for readability, concise coverage, and accessibility while incorporating the many new requirements and changes in accounting reporting and standards. The text gives students the conceptual background and analytical tools necessary to understand and interpret business financial statements. Its ultimate goal is to improve students’ ability to translate financial statement numbers into a meaningful map for business decisions and thus enable each student to approach financial statements with enhanced confidence.

Author:

Lyn Fraser

A native Texan, Lyn Fraser is the author of a forthcoming book about the original risk-takers, “Advent Women” (Crosslink 2017). She has also published a mystery novel (Mainly Murder Press), two books on the psalms (Morehouse/Church Publishing and Paulist Press), and a business textbook (Pearson) that has sold over 200,000 copies. Lyn has taught at Texas A&M University and Colorado Mesa University and served as a hospital and hospice chaplain. She has an M.F.A. from Bennington and a D. Min. from the School of Theology at the University of the South. Currently residing in western Colorado, Lyn enjoys the magnificent natural landscape as an avid walker and camper. She makes frequent trips to the United Kingdom to spend time with her first grandson.

Aileen Ormiston

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