Accounting goodwill arises as a result of business combinations and appears in a consolidated balance sheet of an acquirer. It is an intangible asset which reflects an excess of value of an acquired business as a whole over a summed value of its identifiable net assets. Since 2010 the...

CHAPTER 1 - Primary financial statements -- CHAPTER 2 - Notes to financial statements -- CHAPTER 3 - Financial statement analysis -- CHAPTER 4 – Prospective financial statement analysis and simulations -- CHAPTER 5 – Real-life case study: A flight to a bankruptcy of Norwegian Air Shuttle.

Chapter 1. Most common distortions in a financial statement analysis caused by objective weaknesses of accounting and analytical methods -- Chapter 2. Other “noise” in a financial statement analysis caused by objective weaknesses of accounting and analytical methods -- Chapter 3. Deliberate...