Corporate Annual Report Bibliography

Corporate annual reports are now as likely to be examined by social and political theorists as they are by financial analysts and economists. Given that these documents are viewed as increasingly important and that books about them are often scattered throughout library collections, we have gathered here for your convenience a number of them. To find additional related books we suggest you use headings such as: "corporation reports" or "financial statements". The Western Libraries has strong collections of annual reports in a variety of formats. To find them we suggest you start by looking at the web site of the Business Library and particularly this page.

For your convenience we provide here a useful guide from Merrill Lynch: How to Read a Financial Report.

McKenzie, Wendy.
FT guide to using and interpreting company accounts
HF5686.C7M398 2010

Schoenebeck, Karen and Mark P. Holtzman.
Interpreting and analyzing financial statements : a project-based approach
HG4028.B2S39 2010

Model Financial Statements: General Purpose for SBEs,
( HF5681.B2M6313) 2007
published by the Ordre des comptables agrees du Quebec. Designed for small business enterprises, Model Financial Statements -- General Purpose includes references to the CICA Handbook, as well as notes, explanations and specific exhibits that apply to a wide range of situations.

Haskins, Mark E.
The Secret Language of Financial Reports : the back stories that can enhance your investment decisions (HF5681.B2H324 2008)
"The Secret Language of Financial Reports helps you read a company's annual report like a good book so you can make informed investment decisions. From reading the fine print to interpreting what isn't accounted for, this authoritative guide provides a road map for seeing past the complexity and jargon in company reports in order to understand what is and is not communicated there. Through numerous diagrams, insightful analogies, and real-world based examples, it deconstructs and explains the critical aspects of an annual report by revealing 14 underlying “secrets.” In The Secret Language of Financial Reports, Mark E. Haskins demystifies the process of creating annual reports in order for you to fully understand the main purposes, fundamental premises, basic content, embedded compromises, and inherent shortcomings of these documents. He offers detailed coverage of:

• Balance sheets, income statements, and statements of cash flow
• The auditor's report, financial statement notes, and management's discussion and analysis
• Strategies for applying the information you decipher

Thomsett, Michael
Annual Reports 101: What the Numbers and the Fine Print Can Reveal About the True Health of a Company (HG 4028.B2T47 2007)
An annual report is a powerful and revealing document about a company's financial standing. If you know what you're looking for, it can give you substantial insight about where the company may be headed in the future. But to the untrained eye, the annual report may seem like walls of accounting technicalities provided to fill up space between the glossy photos and the upbeat “Message from the CEO.”
Annual Reports 101 gets past the PR machine to show the meaning behind the spin. This ultra-practical guide shows you how to thoroughly translate and read “between the lines” of the balance sheet, income statement, cash flow report, and the accompanying text. The book helps you get a true sense of the "big picture" behind the company, allowing you to move beyond the numbers themselves and the fluffy, PR-driven copy. Before you know it, you'll have the tools to spot red flags, decipher footnotes, and see past common practices that, while legal, may not give the most accurate picture.

Berman, Karen
Financial intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
HG4028.B2B422 2006
Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can't read a balance sheet, wouldn't recognize a liquidity ratio, and don't know how to calculate return on investment. Worse, they don't have any idea where the numbers come from or how reliable they really are. In Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman and Joe Knight teach the basics of finance--but with a twist. Financial reporting, they argue, is as much art as science. Because nobody can quantify everything, accountants always rely on estimates, assumptions, and judgment calls. Savvy managers need to know how those sources of possible bias can affect the financials and that sometimes the numbers can be challenged. While providing the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, the book also arms managers with practical strategies for improving their companies' performance--strategies, such as "managing the balance sheet," that are well understood by financial professionals but rarely shared with their nonfinancial colleagues. Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, Financial Intelligence gives nonfinancial managers the financial knowledge and confidence for their everyday work.

Lajili, Kaouthar and Zeghal, Daniel
A Content Analysis of Risk Management Disclosures in Canadian Annual Reports
BUS HD 31.U62 no.05-06 2005

Naik, Ranjit B.
Cracking the Code: Finanical Statements Explained
BUS HF 5681.B2N355 2004
[This British book is]"written for those without an accounting background, in particular lawyers or new managers, whose role requires them to understand financial statements in order to advise or run their business.
This book dispels the mystique surrounding financial statements and explains in simple terms:
-What appears on the typical financial statements for a company
-How financial statements are analysed in order to determine the profitability and viability of a company
-How group accounts are prepared and how international accounting differences arise and are being addressed
-The appearance of financial statements for banks and insurance companies and what the entries mean.

Anthony, Robert
Rethinking the Rules of Financial Accounting: Examining the Rules for Proper Reporting
HF5635.A725 2004

Taulli, Tom
The Edgar Online Guide for Decoding Financial Statements: Tips, Tools and Techniques for Becoming a Savvy Investor
HF5681.B2T32 2004

Fletcher, John C.
Getting Behind the Numbers
HF5681.B2F584 2003 

Higson, Andrew
Corporate Financial Reporting: Theory and Practice
HF5686.C7H54 2003

International Federation of Accountants
Rebuilding Public Confidence in Financial Reporting : An International Perspective.
HF5681.B2R38 2003

Siciliano, Gene.
Finance for Non-Financial Manager
HG4026.S4855 2003. 

Siegel, Joel et. al.
The Manager's Handbook to Preparing and Using Financial Reports 
HF5635.M25 2003 

Stittle, John
Annual Reports: Delivering Your Corporate Message to Stakeholders
HG4028.B2S75 2003

Crowther, David
A Social Critique of Corporate Reporting: A Semiotic Analysis of Corporate Financial and Environmental Reporting
HG4028.B2C76 2002

DiPiazza, Samuel A.
Building Public Trust: The Future of Corporate Reporting
HG4028.B2D547 2002

Flower, John
Global Financial Reporting
HF5681.B2F587 2002.

Fridson, Martin S.
Financial Statement Analysis : A Practitioner's Guide
HF5681.B2F772 2002.

Miller, Paul B. W.
Quality Financial Reporting
HF5681.B2M475 2002.
Taylor, Caroline
Publishing the Nonprofit Annual Report : Tips, Traps, and Tricks of the Trade
HG4028 B2 T3 2002

Vause, Bob
The Economist Guide to Analysing Companies
This guide is published by The Economist.
How do you tell how well run a company is and how well it is doing?
Which ratios and what benchmarks are best to use when assessing a company's performance?
How do you recognise danger signs on the corporate horizon?
What may be done to massage company results?
How do you make comparisons between companies operating in different sectors or incorporated in different countries?
All these important questions as well as many more are answered in this clear and comprehensive guide to the ways businesses can be analysed and assessed, which is aimed at anyone who wants to:
*make practical use of a company's annual report
*understand what drives a company
*measure a company against its competitors
*assess the financial health of a trading partner
*judge the creditworthiness of a customer or client
*assess the investment potential of a company
*appreciate alternative ways of valuing a company

Eccles, Robert G.
The Value Reporting Revolution: Moving Beyond The Earnings Game
HG4028.B2V35 2001

Riahi-Belkaoui, Ahmed
Financial Statements--Present and Future Scope
HG4028.B2R5 2001

Brownlee, E. Richard
Corporate Financial Reporting
HF5686.C7B716 2001

Sutton, Tim
Corporate Financial Accounting and Reporting
HF5686.C7S87 2000

Corporate Reporting Of Nonfinancial Performance Indicators and Operating Measures
HG4028.B2C67 2000

Grant, Julia
Corporate Reporting Of Nonfinancial Performance Indicators and Operating Measures
HG4028.B2C67. 2000.

Merrill Lynch
How to Read a Financial Report
HF5681.B2M5 2000

Fraser, Lyn M.
Understanding Financial Statements
HF5681.B2F764 1998

Kamp, Bart
Solvency Assessment and Annual Reporting : An Empirical Study on The Informative Value Of Annual Reports Based on Bond Rating
HG4028.B2K35 1998

Mavrinac, Sarah C.
Measures That Matter: An Exploratory investigation of Investors' Information Needs and Value Priorities
HF5006.L67 no.97-10 1997

Stittle, John
Company Financial Reporting: An Introduction For Non-Accountants
HF5681.B2S69 1997

Guolla, Michael Angelo
Using Annual Report Data To Measure Market Orientation: A New Method and Comparison of International Firms
HF5681.B2G83 1997

Brownlee, E. Richard.
Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases
HF5686.C7B716 1994

Epstein, Marc J.
The Shareholder's Use of Corporate Annual Reports
HG4028.B2E668 1993

Information to be Included in the Annual Report to Shareholders
HF5686.C7I53 1991

Framework for Corporate Reporting on Sustainable Development: Discussion Paper
HD75.6.F73 1991

Anderson, Robert H.
An Overview of Annual Reports and Guidelines For the Preparation of Annual Reports
HF5681.B2A65 1990

Herring, Jerry
Annual Report Design
Z286.C68H47 1990 (oversize)

Chant, Peter
Financial Statement Presentation of Corporate Financing Activities
HF5681.B2C426 1989

Boyadjian, Haig J.
Risks: Reading Corporate Signals
HG4026.B66 1987

Hawkins, David F.
The Effectiveness of the Annual Report as a Communication Vehicle: A Digest of the Relevant Literature
HF5718.H3 1986

Lundblad, Heidemarie
Voluntary Financial Disclosure: An International Comparison of Managerial Policies
HF5686.C7L736 1986a

Winter, Elmer L.
A Complete Guide to Preparing a Corporate Annual Report
HF5681.B2W56 1985

Haller, Leon
Making Sense of Accounting Information: A Practical Guide for Understanding Financial Reports and Their Use
HF5681.B2H265 1985

Chang, Lucia S.
The Perceived Usefulness of Financial Statements for Investors' Decisions
HF5681.B2C42 1985

Fraser, Lyn M.
Understanding Financial Statements: Through the Maze of a Corporate Annual Report
HF5681.B2F764 1985

How to Read Financial Statements: A Practical Approach to Sound Decision-making for Canadian Investors
HF5681.B2H68 1985

AR : The Complete Annual Report and Corporate Image Planning Book
HD59.2.A72 1985

Fanning, David
Company Accounts: A Guide
HG4028.B2F36 1984

Lurie, Adolph G.
How to Read Annual Reports--Intelligently: A Stockholder's Guide
HG4028.B2L87 1984

Lipay, Raymond J.
Understand Those Financial Reports: Question and Answer Guide for Investors and Nonfinancial Managers
HF5681.B2L5852 1984

Study Group on Management Reports
The Management Report in the Annual Report
HG4028.B2S77 1981

Coyle, Richard Jay
Interim Reports to Shareholders: Content and Format Differences From a Rrandom Sample Survey of the Fortune 1000
HF5681.B2C67 1979

Hawkins, David F.
Corporate Financial Reporting: Text and Cases
HF5686.C7H35 1977

Lee, T. A. (Thomas Alexander)
Company Financial Reporting: Issues and Analysis
HF5681.B2L4 1976

Lanfranconi, Claude Peter
Change in Corporate Financial Disclosure in Canada: An Empirical Study of the Use of Notes to Financial Statements and Supplementary Financial Data Schedules for Disclosure in
Corporate Annual Rreports in Canada
AS42.L83L268 1976

Thomas, Arthur Lawrence
Financial Accounting: The Main Ideas
HF5681.B2T47 1975

Eamer, William George
Corporate Annual Reports: Their Objectives and Utility; An Empirical Study
AS42.C42 no.18073 1974

Myer, John Nicholas
Understanding Financial Statements: Originally Titled: What the Executive Should Know About the Accountant's Statement
HF5681.B2M927 1968

Compendium of Annual Reports, inc., New York
The Compendium of Annual Reports
HG4028.B2C6 1964

Wight, John Bethune
Preparing a Good Annual Report
HG4028.B2W55 1964

Taylor, Robert George
An Examination of the Evolution, Content, Utility and Problems of Published Interim Reports
HF5681.B2T38 1963

Floyd, Elizabeth R.
Preparing the Annual Report
HD21.A6 no.46 1960

Research Bureaus, inc., Detroit
The Annual report
HG4028.B2R4 (1959 - 1963)

Secoy, Tom Guthrie
A Study of the Form, Content, and Use of Notes to Financial Statements in Corporate Annual Reports HG4028.B2S43 1959a

Pillsbury, Wilbur Fiske
The Use of Corporate Financial Statements and Related Data by Organized Labor
HF5001.I4 no.18 1954

Sanders, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry)
Company Annual Reports to Stockholders, Employees and the Public
HG4028.B2S35 1949

Doris, Lillian
Modern Corporate Reports to Stockholders, Employees and the Public
HG4028.B2D6 1948

McLaren, Norman Loyall
Annual Reports to Stockholders : Their Preparation and Interpretation
HG4028.B2M33 1947