Financial intelligence for IT professionals
Subtitle: what you really need to know about the numbers
By: Karen Berman, Joe Knight with John Case.
Contributors: Knight, Joe, 1963-; Case, John, 1942-
Series: Financial intelligence
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781422119143
Subjects: Information technology -- Finance; Information technology -- Management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface : what is financial intelligence?; title: The art of finance (and why it matters to IT); title: You can't always trust the numbers; title: Spotting assumptions, estimates, and biases; title: Why increase your financial intelligence?; title: Toolbox : getting what you want; the players and what they do; title: The (many) peculiarities of the income statement; title: Profit is an estimate; title: Cracking the code of the income statement; title: Revenue : the issue is recognition; title: Costs and expenses : no hard-and-fast rules; title: The many forms of profit; title: Toolbox : variance; percent calculations; line of sight; title: The balance sheet reveals the most; title: Understanding balance sheet basics; title: Assets : more estimates and assumptions (except for cash); title: On the other side : liabilities and equity; title: Why the balance sheet balances; title: The income statement affects the balance sheet; title: Toolbox : employees as assets; expenses vs.capital expenditures; title: Cash is king; title: Cash is a reality check; title: Profit ? cash (and you need both); title: The language of cash flow; title: How cash connects with everything else; title: Why cash matters; title: Toolbox: free cash flow; title: Ratios: learning what the numbers are really telling you; title: The power of ratios; title: Profitability ratios: the higher the better (mostly); title: Leverage ratios: the balancing act; title: Liquidity ratios: can we pay our bills?; title: Efficiency ratios: making the most of your assets; title: Toolbox: ratios for the business; ratios for it; leading vs. lagging indicators; percent-of-sales analysis; ratio relationships; title: How to calculate (and really understand) return on investment; title: The building blocks of roi; title: Figuring roi: the nitty-gritty; title: Toolbox: the roi of an it project; title: Applied financial intelligence: working capital management; title: The magic of managing the balance sheet; title: Your balance sheet levers; title: Homing in on cash conversion; title: Toolbox: understanding accounts- receivable aging; title: Creating a financially intelligent it department (and organization); title: Financial literacy and corporate performance; title: Financial literacy strategies; title: Appendix: putting it into practice; title: Notes; title: Acknowledgments; title: Index; title: About the authors.