Core Concepts of Financial Analysis has a user focus (not a preparer focus), based on a formal six-step process for analysis and decision-making. Giroux uses an external focus, with particular emphasis on credit and equity investment decisions.
The book is relatively short, but fairly comprehensive covering financial statements, accounting information, stock market information, economic and industry information, and other sources for recommendations and decisions. It assumes that students have a reasonable understanding of basic accounting and finance principles and attempts to expand from these to structure financial analysis for specific recommendations or decisions. The book is designed primarily for senior-level finance and accounting students, soon to be off to start financial analysis-related professions.
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About the Author: Gary Giroux is Shelton Professor of Accounting at Texas A&M University. He received his Ph.D. from Texas Tech University and has been at Texas A&M for about twenty-five years. He teaches financial analysis and other financial and governmental courses in the undergraduate program. He also teaches research methods in the Ph.D. program.
Dr. Giroux has published over fifty articles, including publications in Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and numerous other journals. He is the author of three earlier books, including Dollars & Scholars, Scribes & Bribes: The Story of Accounting. His primary research areas are governmental and financial accounting. He also is interested in accounting and business history.
He has a number of outside interests, including collecting revenue documents and stamps, reading, golf, and scuba diving. He and his wife Naomi travel regularly, in part based on international research projects and presentations.
