Important Corporate Notes in The 10-K Report

     

                 

Investors usually don’t  bother to read a corporate  prospectus. Among  reasons why I suggest they don’t  buy individual stocks, but that they use low-cost mutual funds that invest in securities indexes.

                           

It does make lots of sense to individual securities investors  to review the. corporate Notes in financial statements. The 10-K is essential in understanding the statements because Notes  describe the accounting methods used to prepare such financial statements. Any change in methodology from  previous years can skew the figures.(See the Earl J. Weinreb NewsHole® comments and @BusinessNewshole at Twitter.)