Shows how to know whether a company has legitimate long-term earnings power or whether its stock is little more than an attractively packaged time bomb. It reveals the four substantive limitations of the income statement found in every annual report, 10-K, and 10-Q; the Earning Power Chart - a powerful, picture-based investment tool for identifying great growth stocks for the next; and case studies of real companies, from Enron and WorldCom, to Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, and Wrigley