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- What are the key risks associated with derivatives?

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- Context of accounting
- Financial statements of an industrial corporate
- Financial statements of a bank
- Financial statements of an insurance company
- Financial statements of other types of businesses
- Finance and the public sector
- Company analysis
- Group accounts
- Harmonisation of international accounting practices

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This book is intended to dispel the mystique surrounding the financial
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small , employees, employee representatives, stock market analysts and
investors, fund managers, credit controllers, insurance underwriters,
reinsurers, account managers and sales professionals and civil servants. Appendix C is a quick-reference guide to the ratios that are
usually used to analyse the performance and financial position of industrial
companies.