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  <title><![CDATA[The Interpretation of Financial Statements]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;All investors, from beginners to old hands, should gain from the use of this guide, as I have.&quot; &lt;br&gt;From the Introduction by Michael F. Price, president, Franklin Mutual Advisors, Inc.&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Benjamin Graham has been called the most important investment thinker of the twentieth century. As a master investor, pioneering stock analyst, and mentor to investment superstars, he has no peer. &lt;p&gt;The volume you hold in your hands is Graham's timeless guide to interpreting and understanding financial statements. It has long been out of print, but now joins Graham's other masterpieces, &lt;i&gt;The Intelligent Investor&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;I&gt;Security Analysis,&lt;/I&gt; as the three priceless keys to understanding Graham and value investing. &lt;p&gt;The advice he offers in this book is as useful and prescient today as it was sixty years ago. As he writes in the preface, &quot;if you have precise information as to a company's present financial position and its past earnings record, you are better equipped to gauge its future possibilities. And this is the essential function and value of security analysis.&quot; &lt;p&gt;Written just three years after his landmark &lt;i&gt;Security Analysis, The Interpretation of Financial Statements&lt;/i&gt; gets to the heart of the master's ideas on value investing in astonishingly few pages. Readers will learn to analyze a company's balance sheets and income statements and arrive at a true understanding of its financial position and earnings record. Graham provides simple tests any reader can apply to determine the financial health and well-being of any company. &lt;p&gt;This volume is an exact text replica of the first edition of &lt;i&gt;The Interpretation of Financial Statements,&lt;/i&gt; published by Harper &amp; Brothers in 1937. Graham's original language has been restored, and readers can be assured that every idea and technique presented here appears exactly as Graham intended. &lt;p&gt; Highly practical and accessible, it is an essential guide for all business people--and makes the perfect companion volume to Graham's investment masterpiece &lt;i&gt;The Intelligent Investor. &lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[Take an accounting class then read this book or read it while taking the class or just read it. In any case it will give you an understanding of a company's financial strength if you ever want to know something like that.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm not sure that &quot;Liked it&quot; is the best way to rate this.  <br/>It would get 5 stars if it had been &quot;Needed it.&quot;<br/>Take your time and work your way through it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good book on Graham's view.  It is not high on my list but I did enjoy reading it. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[investasi......investasi,,,,,,investasi.,,,,]]></body>
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