The Economist Guide to Financial Management: Principles and practice

The Economist Guide to Financial Management: Principles and practice

The Economist Guide to Financial Management: Principles and practice

The Economist Guide to Financial Management: Principles and practice

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Overview


Managers are constantly expected to make decisions that reflect a full understanding of the financial consequences. In the absence of formal training, few people are prepared for the responsibilities of dealing with management reports, budgets, and capital proposals, and find themselves embarrassed by their lack of understanding.

This book is a practical guide to understanding and managing financial responsibilities. Each chapter examines actual tasks managers have to do, from “how to assemble a budget,” ”how to read variances on a report,” ”how to construct a proposal to invest in new equipment,” exploring the range of principles that can be applied to each task, illustrating practical ways these principles are used, and providing guidance for implementation

The Economist Guide to Financial Management will help the reader understand financial jargon, financial statements, management accounts, performance measures, budgeting, costing, pricing, decision-making and investment appraisal. This second edition has been fully revised and expanded with detailed examples from 100 leading businesses around the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781610393935
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 01/28/2014
Series: Economist Books Series
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition, paperback original
Pages: 368
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author


John Tennent is co-author of The Economist Guide to Business Modelling and The Economist Guide to Cash Management. He is an accountant, who for the past 20 years has been involved in training and consultancy with firms such as Unilever, BOC, BAE, Kraft, Thomson Corp, Cable & Wireless, BT, St Gobain and EMI.

Table of Contents

Preface vi

1 Defining a successful business 1

2 Business structures 13

3 The role of the finance department 20

4 Financial statements and accounting systems 30

5 Accounting concepts and principles 51

6 Investors 77

7 Cost to serve 105

8 Product pricing and profitability 130

9 Portfolio management 144

10 Investment appraisal 161

11 Business planning, budgeting and reporting 201

12 Operational ratios and measures 232

13 Stockmarket and investor measures 261

14 Working capital management 281

15 Published reports and accounts 305

16 Accounting complexities 318

Glossary of financial terms 330

List of companies 341

References 344

Index 345

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