Research Analyst teaches investment research the way it is practised rather than theorised. Its financial-analysis chapter takes Bharti Airtel's FY2018-19 consolidated annual report and computes every ratio on Airtel's own numbers—with Kingfisher Airlines as the counter-case, five straight years in the red on both profit before tax and operating cash flow. Across 15 chapters the book traces the analyst's full arc: vocabulary of equity, debt and commodity instruments, the funnel from economy to industry to company to valuation, and conduct rules governing what gets published. It is candid where most texts hedge and current where most are stale—footnoted to SEBI circulars running to February 2026, including two clauses on Artificial Intelligence in research work. Published exclusively by Taxmann, this March 2026 Workbook Version carries a 40-item research checklist, 70 questions with answers printed inline, and case studies running from the Barings collapse to the 2008 credit event.
