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.

The business reporting standard XBRL offers the opportunity to easily extract and analyze a sufficient number of monetary items out of single annual reports for statistical analysis purposes. Using XBRL 10-K reports filed with the SEC EDGAR system, we derive first digit distributions for single...