Reading a financial statement - can anyone point me i the right direction?

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I have applied for a job, most of which I am well qualified to do and have been shortlisted for an interview. There is a part of the job to do with financial planning that I have not done before. I haven't said that I have: all I have said is that I have written budgets, which I have but I haven't written a financial statement at the end of a project.

Part of the interview is to read a fund report for a project and to say what I would suggest. I think I have some valid ideas but was planning to check them out by going online and learning how to read a financial statement. All I can find, however, is how to read annual statements for businesses and charities - which this is not.

I just want to check that what I have to say is not silly. The problems in the statement seem fairly straightforward but I just would like some way of checking my thoughts.

is there anything you could point me to which might help?

A businesses 'financial statement' would not be a single document- it's made up of their balance sheet, income statement etc and reading those is not something you can do a crash course on the Internet in a few hours (if only )

It sounds like you've been given a very specific set of numbers and they have certain expectations from your responses.

I'd say go with your gut feeling- if you try and second guess what you think they want you might not come across very confidently. Tell them what you would have if they'd presented this data to you during the interview and hadn't had time to think about it.

Yes that is what I mean. I can't swat up on it because it is not a full report and all the tutorials cover those. There are some things I am a bit puzzled about and I don't know if they are deliberate problems or I am not understanding something. Hmm.

Sorry forgot my name change. Busted!

It is a breakdown of the finances for one project.

PMSL at the name change error!

Honestly, don't over analyse it- go with your instinct. If it's wrong you'd probably struggle in the job anyway. You can't swot up on every situation- it sounds like they're looking for someone who thinks in a certain way and you'll either fit that bill or you won't but trying to second guess them is unlikely to end well.

Good luck

Thanks ????