Mastering Fundamental Analysis

Contrary to one reviewer I think the purpose of this book would be to teach fundamental analysis. To dismiss the Efficient Market Theory is not the main goal of this book, because if you do any type of technical or fundamental analysis this is a pre-condition. If your purpose is to dismiss EMH, get Louis Bachelier's thesis and do advanced statistical tests. But the book should be better. What I did not like in this book: The author is repetitive, verbose. That is, he "talks" too much. Besides, I think he should exemplify his analysis with REAL CASES getting financial statements from, say 2 companies, make a spreadsheet and analyse them in detail, showing you how to really use fundamental indicators (not only the blah blah blah). He should give you price targets and buy/hold/sell recommendations. On the contrary, he only talks about things. It lacks depth. In a certain sense, the book seems a general public magazine. And several chapters are dedicated to commentaries about other things that are not related to fundamental analysis. This would not be a problem had the author explained well the main subject, that is, Fundamental analysis. Also the book has errors in simple formulas, like the weighted moving average. The order of the quarters in the example is wrong (the last quarter should have the greatest weight as the text explains). This kind of error is horrible. If you intend to explain simple things for people that do not know these things you need to be careful and not make errors in the examples, at the risk of a complete confusion. The book has another error in the explanation of the return rate. Someone that knows what is a weighted moving average can discover these errors, but Thomsett should be more careful.