Guide to Analysing Companies (The Economist) Paperback – January 6, 2015

If you you're not familiar with financial analysis for companies, this book is really a good start. Some people complain about the use of British terms, but they're not hard to understand. The language used is simple and succinct; this book would be titled "Analysing companies for dummies", if it wasn't published by The Economist.

The other review must have been reviewing the last version of the kindle book which is fixed, this book was incredibly helpful in running an analysis on my company.

Love this book, reminds so much about accounting.

I am a beginner and was looking for resources to help explain reading financial statements and someone recommended this book, I found it very hard to read. Maybe it would be a good book for someone more advanced.

Just avoid it. The book is dreadfully organized, jumping from heading to heading within each chapter without any rhyme or reason. It mixes Britishisms and American terms at will, including for key concepts, and states outright contradictions that will confuse readers who are looking to get into financial analysis (e.g. "a funds flow statement is a cash flow statement," followed a few pages later by, "it's not.") The book is full of this stuff.