Finance & accounting for nonfinancial managers
By: Steven A. Finkler
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: CCH Inc
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780808025764
Subjects: Accounting; Business enterprises; Finance; Software
Other titles: Finance and accounting for nonfinancial managers
Description: This book is an introduction to the world of financial management. The focus is to familiarize the nonfinancial manager with the important concepts and vocabulary y involved with accounting and finance so that the business leader can develop an ability to ask the right questions, understand the response, and understand the finance and accounting tools that are used in business planning, reporting and strategizing.--COVER.
Table of contents: title: An introduction to financial management; title: Excel basics; title: Accounting concepts; title: An introduction to the key financial statements; title: Where does the organization's money come from?; title: Strategic planning and budgeting; title: Business plans; title: Cost accounting; title: Leverage; title: Dealing with uncertainty; title: Capital budgeting; title: Earned value management; title: Depreciation : Having your cake and eating it too!; title: Long-term financing; title: Working capital management and banking relationships; title: Inventory costing : The accountant's world of make believe; title: Variance analysis : Using budgets for control; title: Fraud; title: The role of the outside auditor; title: Recording and reporting financial information; title: Valuation of assets, liabilities and stockholders' equity; title: A closer look at financial statements; title: Notes to the financial statements; title: Ratio analysis; title: A primer on taxes; title: Summary and conclusion.