the book introduces the methods, procedures and indicators used by financial analysis for measuring and evaluating the financial situation and performance of the company. In addition to basic methods and indicators, it also pays attention to the data provided by accounting, in the direction of possible restrictions or distortion of their explanatory power, based either on the accounting method itself or on the possibilities of possible or intentional distortion. It also includes a description of selected new ones 7 indicators and methods that have been developed in recent years in response to a shift in the concept of performance companies.