Financial Statement Analysis or The Nursing Experience

Financial Statement Analysis

Author: John J Wild

Financial Statement Analysis, 9e, emphasizes effective business analysis and decision making by analysts, investors, managers, and other stakeholders of the company. It continues to set the standard (over 8 prior editions and hundreds of thousands in unit book sales) in showing students the keys to effective financial statement analysis. It begins with an overview (chapters 1-2), followed by accounting analysis (chapters 3-6) and then financial analysis (chapters 7-11). The book presents a balanced view of analysis, including both equity and credit analysis, and both cash-based and earnings-based valuation models. The book is aimed at accounting and finance classes, and the professional audience as it shows the relevance of financial statement analysis to all business decision makers. The authors:
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Use numerous and timely “real world” examples and cases
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Draw heavily on actual excerpts from financial reports and footnotes
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Focus on analysis and interpretation of financial reports and their footnotes
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Illustrate debt and equity valuation that uses results of financial statement analysis
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Have a concise writing style to make the material accessible.

Table of Contents:

1	Overview of financial statement analysis	2
2	Financial reporting and analysis	60
3	Analyzing financing activities	114
4	Analyzing investing activities	194
5	Analyzing investing activities : intercorporate investments	236
6	Analyzing operating activities	296
7	Cash flow analysis	372
8	Return on invested capital and profitability analysis	416
9	Prospective analysis	462
10	Credit analysis	498
11	Equity analysis and valuation	572
	Comprehensive case : applying financial statement analysis	606

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The Nursing Experience: Trends, Challenges, and Transitions

Author: Lucille A Joel

*Reviews all material critical to the Introduction to Nursing Courses (Trends and Issues)
*New edition details the changing roles of registered nurses within managed care and institutional settings
*Covers career management, including consulting, retaining, and continuing education

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Reviewer: Mary Ellen Wurzbach, RN, MSN, PhD (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Description: The book, which is very aptly titled, discusses the nursing experience with all of its trends, challenges and transitions. This is the fourth edition of a history, trends, and issues in contemporary nursing text.
Purpose: The purpose, according to the authors, is to endow students with an insatiable intellectual curiosity that goes beyond the book. Their hope is that nursing students will be both well informed and motivated to search for additional answers beyond the pages of the book. The objectives are worthy and well met.
Audience: The audience is inferred to be undergraduate nursing students beginning their careers. It might also be of interest to any nurse wanting an overview of the profession's history, trends, and transitions. High school students and pre-nursing students who are interested in nursing as a career could use it as an introductory reference text. The authors have the highest credibility, since they have held prominent positions in high profile nursing organizations.
Features: This very compact and informationally dense book has many outstanding features, including the expertise of the authors. It is composed of five sections beginning with the evolution of nursing, nursing in the healthcare arena, nursing practice, nursing ethics and the law, and concluding with transition into practice. Each chapter ends with key points, study questions, a reference list, and suggested Web sites. There is also a Web site at which updates to the text may be found. The book contains several appendixes that offer information not found in other texts such as lists of major nursing organizations with names, addresses and Web sites, and short biographies of distinguished nurses from the past.
Assessment: This is an excellent introduction to the nursing experience. As a reference for nurses or as a motivator for high school, pre-nursing, or nursing students, it is exemplary. The author's current and previous professional roles add to the in-depth information. It has numerous features not found in other books, including the history of many nursing milestones. Much effort has gone into providing a succinct overview of nursing as a profession. In addition, the cover art is exceptional. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in the history, trends, and transitions of the nursing profession.

Rating

5 Stars! from Doody

Table of Contents:

1	Care of the sick : how nursing began	3
2	Nursing in the United States : American Revolution to nursing revolution	23
3	The health care delivery system	79
4	The discipline of nursing	166
5	Education and research for practice	207
6	Career opportunities	245
7	Leadership for an era of change	294
8	Ethical issues in nursing and health care	327
9	Patients' rights; students' rights	357
10	Politics and public policy	404
11	Health care credentialing and nursing licensure	442
12	Legal aspects of nursing practice	475
13	Nursing organizations and publications	525
14	Workplace choices	560
15	Career management	588
App. 1	Major studies of the nursing profession
App. 2	Major health care personnel
App. 3	State boards of nursing (2005)
App. 4	Major nursing and related organizations
App. 5	Specialty certifications
App. 6	Basics of parliamentary procedure
App. 7	Distinguished nurses of the past : fifty nurses who made a difference