[nfbcs] Looking for an accessible way to read financial statements

[Sabra Ewing]

I don't know what to tell you. For my own bank, I can only look three months back. I can't read any statements before that on the website because they are all not accessible. I would say you should get someone to put the statement into a spreadsheet for you.

Sabra Ewing

> On Apr 15, 2017, at 6:11 PM, David Andrews via nfbcs <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> First, as an old-timer, I think you should not think of use of a human reader as "resorting."  There was a time, not that long ago, when this was a student's major tool.
> 
> Secondly, do you know the table-reading commands in your screen reader?  If so, these may help you -- or they may not, if the tables weren't coded properly.
> 
> Dave
> 
> At 05:49 PM 4/15/2017, you wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am taking an accounting class, and we are doing a project in which we are analyzing and comparing the financial statements of two major corporations. It seemed that Google finance was pretty accessible, but the information was in a table and there were four different values for each item. I'm supposed to compare two consecutive years. essentially was not able to decipher which numbers corresponded with the respective values. I also found some pdf documents of the statement of cash flows, balance sheet, and income statement on the corporation's web site, but I was not able to make much sense of them either. Thus far, I have had my accounting book produced in Braille, and the brailleest did quite a good job in transcribing them in a way that I was able to grasp. I have also used excel to complete homework assignments. However, trying to access actual statements of of a company seems much more challenging. I may just have to resort to using a human reader, but I would appreciate any advice from anyone who has experience with this.
>> Thank you
> 
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