I see a lot of YouTubers treating stock-based compensation as a "non-cash" item they can disregard, but it's essentially a company paying its employees with shareholder money; if they used money from selling shares to cover salaries, you'd see just how real of an expense it is
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10 threads that will teach you more about accounting than any accounting degree:
1/ Who: @10kdiver
What: Understand the balance
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— 10-K Diver (@10kdiver) February 5, 2022
Get a cup of coffee.
In this thread, I'll show you how to read and understand a company's Balance Sheet.
As investors, we should be able to judge businesses by looking at their financial statements.
And the Balance Sheet, of course, is 1 of 3 key financial statements: pic.twitter.com/6D0HA0vmEN
2/ Who: @SoulFairy3
What: Income statement
Many new investors are scared of financial statements. I don't blame them. Us accountants complicate the simplest things to keep ourselves employed\U0001f602
— Soul \U0001f4da (@SoulFairy3) December 6, 2021
Let me show you guys the Income Statement first. You honestly just need 3 numbers. Trus bob\U0001f483
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3/ Who: @BrianFeroldi
What: Income statement
Accounting is the language of business.
— Brian Feroldi (\U0001f9e0,\U0001f4c8) (@BrianFeroldi) July 28, 2021
If you buy stocks, you MUST learn how to read an income statement
Here\u2019s everything you need to know:
4/ Who: @AliTheCFO
What: Profit vs cash
Most founders don\u2019t understand the difference between PROFIT and CASH FLOW
— Ali Ladha (@AliTheCFO) November 2, 2021
Not knowing this difference, could leave your business without cash and push you into bankruptcy
Here are the key differences between PROFIT and CASH FLOW
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It's simple, if ""FY23 PAT of this API to CDMO = FY21 PAT of largest pure-play CDMO/API"" then the FY23 Mcap of this API/CDMO= FY21 Mcap of largest pure-play CDMO/API, am I correct Sajal saab??
— richman (@greatrichman3) June 14, 2021