Accounting Principles vs Financial statement analysis: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Accounting, Finance, Business
Accounting Principles
This edition has tips and strategies written by accounting students to annotate the student version of this edition. They tell the best ways to use the book and navigate through the course. Real-world e×amples have been…
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Financial statement analysis
“Financial statement analysis is an essential skill in a variety of occupations including investment management, corporate finance, commercial lending, and the extension of credit.”
Praise for Financial Statement Analysis A Practitioner's Guide Third Edition "This is an illuminating and insightful tour of financial statements, how they can be used to inform, how they can be used to mislead, and how…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Financial statement analysis is the quickest read — about 7 hours vs 21 for Accounting Principles.
- Accounting Principles has the widest readership — 408 ratings behind its score.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Accounting Principles | Financial statement analysis | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.0 (408) | 4.2 (88) |
| Hardcover | — | 5.0 (1) |
Reception
| Accounting Principles | Financial statement analysis | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 408 | 88 |
| Editions | 79 | 18 |
| Citations | — | 20 |
| Film adaptations | — | 1 |
| Want to read | 1627 | — |
| Reading it now | 116 | — |
| Written reviews | 33 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | — | 545 |
| Pages | 1155 | 400 |