Evaluating Corporate Financial Performance / Progress in Mathematics (PDF)

"Jacek's book offers a user-friendly step-by-step guide through a corporate financial statement analysis. It is a journey starting from fundamental concepts of financial reporting, and then traveling through numerous analytical tools, which are discussed with both a retrospective as well as future-oriented focus. The real-life examples greatly demonstrate not only how financial reports are useful in evaluating business performance, but also (or before all) in an assessment of corporate business risks. The auxiliary materials are innovative and highly valuable too, since they make a 'digestion' of the discussed topics much easier, especially for non-advanced readers."

-Artur Osuchowski, former consultant at KPMG and E&Y, former Deputy President of Ciech S.A. and ongoing member of several supervisory boards of companies listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange

-Eugene Soltes, McLean Family Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

"This book is extraordinary because of innovative features such as online appendix, Excel files, and webinar-form lectures. It includes interesting real-life cases which will attract readers' attention. This book is quite different from existing accounting books and will be an outstanding tool for financial statement analysis."

-Ingoo Han, Professor of Accounting, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

"This is a wonderful book, the additional materials create a kind of augmented reality for learning finance, and its practical approach makes it an essential reference for finance courses based on the case method or challenge-based learning."

-Felipe A. Pérez Sosa, EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey

"Jacek's writing on accounting is sharp and illuminating. His latest is no exceptionand a must read for those trying to understand the art of financial reporting."

Jacek Welc is an Assistant Professor at Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland and a Professor of Corporate Finance at SRH Berlin University of Applied Sciences, Germany. From 2003 to 2007 he was an independent consultant in the areas of corporate valuation, management accounting, and financial accounting. Having also been Head of the Corporate Finance Department at Dexus Partners, Jacek now co-owns a consultancy specialising in corporate financial services called WNP Ekspert. He has written and published a number of articles, as well as a two books: Applied Regression Analysis for Business: Tools, Traps and Applications (Springer, 2017) and Reading Between the Lines of Corporate Financial Reports: In Search of Financial Misstatements (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).