Profit And Loss Statement Balance Sheet Cash Flow Statement

I will be using Singpost financial statement from yahoo finance as an example.Do note that i will be not be going through the terms,only those term that will be use in my upcoming post on financial ratios will be used(I will explain more about it in the future post).





Profit and Loss Statement

The Profit and Loss Statement shows the company's revenues and expenses over a particular period, usually a year

To summarize, the Profit and Loss statement show how profitable the company is

Below is an example of a Profit and Loss Statement/Income statement of Singpost (stock code: S08), refer to this link for the Profit and Loss statement from Singpost

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Revenue



Total Revenue

I have written on reading some part of the financial statement, a year back here . As it does not cover the financial statements thoroughly, this post will be a good pre-read before we delve into the "deeper" stuff.Some of this post material is from the book: How I become a profitable trader after losing $30,000(by Koh Ming Shao), you can either buy the book online or borrow the book from the library(remember my tip on borrowing books from the library?)So let's get straight to the point!A typical company financial statement is made up of 3 component