Finance for Managers (Harvard Business Essentials Series): Your Guide and Mentor to Doing Business Effectively
Calculating and assessing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. Easy to use and nontechnical, Finance for Managers provides the fundamentals of financial literacy and offers managers the smart advice they need to increase their impact on financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.
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Written for corporate and small business managers who are not financial managers, the ten chapters in this collection explain how to finance assets, forecast future cash flows, maintain a budget, determine which operations are profit generators and which are not, and judge the economic merits of different investment opportunities. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction1Financial Statements: The Elements of Managerial Finance12Finding Meaning in Financial Statements: A Look behind the Numbers213Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules That Shape Financial Statements374Taxes: Important Details You Should Know615Financing Operations and Growth: Funding the Different Stages of Growth756Money and Capital Markets: Another Option for Funding Growth957Budgeting: Forecasting Your Company's Financial Future1098Practical Tools for Management Decisions: Making the Numbers Work for You1379The Time Value of Money: Calculating the Real Value of Your Investment14910Valuation Concepts: Evaluating Opportunity171App.: Activity-Based Budgeting185Notes189Glossary191For Further Reading200Index203About the Subject Adviser209About the Writer210
