Strategic Financial Management for Small and Medium Sized Companies


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Research shows a majority of small businesses fail in their early years due to poor financial management, turning the dreams of many business owner and novice entrepreneur into nightmares. This book serves as a guide to prevent small business owners and novice entrepreneurs from experiencing financial disasters.




Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies


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If you’re a small business owner, managing the financial affairs of your business can seem like a daunting task—and it’s one that far too many people muddle through rather than seek help. Now, there’s a tool-packed guide designed to help you manage your finances and run your business successfully! Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies explains step by step how to handle all your financial affairs, from preparing financial statements and managing cash flow to streamlining the accounting process, requesting bank loans, increasing profits, and much more. The bonus CD-ROM features handy reproducible forms, checklists, and templates—from a monthly expense summary to a cash flow statement—and provides how-to guidance that removes the guesswork in using each tool. You’ll discover how to: Plan a budget and forecast Streamline the accounting process Improve your profit and cash flow Make better decisions with a profit model Raise capital and request loans Invest company money wisely Keep your business solvent Choose your legal entity for income tax Avoid common management pitfalls Put a market value on your business Complete with ten rules for small business survival and a financial glossary, Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to get your finances in order, perk up your profits, and thrive long term! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.




Financial Management for the Small Business


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This guide offers skills designed for the reader to use in the financial management of business, from start-up onwards. Question-and-answer sections appear at the end of each chapter to reinforce the points made. Issues covered include balance sheets, profitability, budgets and business plans.




The Complete Guide to Financial Management


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Financial management refers to the efficient and effective management of money (funds) in such a manner as to accomplish the objectives of the organization. It is the specialized function directly associated with the top management. The significance of this function is not only seen in the 'Line' but also in the capacity of 'Staff' in overall administration of a company. It has been defined differently by different experts in the field. It includes how to raise the capital, how to allocate it i.e. capital budgeting. Not only about long term budgeting but also how to allocate the short term resources like current assets. It also deals with the dividend policies of the share holders. DEFINITION of 'Strategic Financial Management ' Managing an organization's financial resources so as to achieve its business objectives and maximize its value. Strategic financial management involves a defined sequence of steps that encompasses the full range of a company's finances, from setting out objectives and identifying resources, analyzing data and making financial decisions, to tracking the variance between actual and budgeted results and identifying the reasons for this variance. The term "strategic" means that this approach to financial management has a long-term horizon.




Corporate Finance


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If you want to learn about corporate finance but don't feel like reading boring textbooks then keep reading... This book contains five manuscripts: Financial Reporting: The Ultimate Guide to Creating Financial Reports and Performing Financial Analysis Business Valuation: The Ultimate Guide to Business Valuation for Beginners, Including How to Value a Business Through Financial Valuation Methods Risk Management: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Risk Management as Applied to Corporate Finance Financial Management: The Ultimate Guide to Planning, Organizing, Directing, and Controlling the Financial Activities of an Enterprise Financial Statements The Ultimate Guide to Financial Statements Analysis for Business Owners and Investors This bundle book explain corporate finance in a detailed, but business-friendly way. This isn't a package of textbooks to teach you how to become an accountant or a risk manager for a major bank; it's a package that will introduce you to the five basic areas of finance that make the most difference to investors and business managers. With Corporate Finance: The Ultimate Guide to Financial Reporting, Business Valuation, Risk Management, Financial Management, and Financial Statements you will get A book that is written in a style that's meant to be easy to read, whether you're grabbing five minutes at your desk over lunchtime or settling in for half an hour's unwind after a long day Real-world examples so you can learn how to spot signs of stress at some companies before things go badly wrong, or how investment analysts might disagree widely on a valuation depending on which method they're using to value a stock A look at how different banks have come a cropper by mismatching their funding and lending maturities, or how particular companies have tried to manage their exposure to commodities prices through running hedging operations Insight into two sets of financial reports - one US and one European - to take a detailed look not just at how to calculate financial ratios, but at what they mean Get information on how to carry out an analysis of a competitor, customer, or potential acquisition Here are just a few reasons to pick up this book now and allow it to help you improve your financial skills: Competitive analysis: By discovering how to take a really in-depth look at their financial statements, you can pinpoint where the extra profit comes from Customer checks: you won't just get you a feeling for their creditworthiness now, but you will be able to see exactly where the pain points are - so that you know just where to look to spot any deterioration in their ability to pay You'll discover how to mitigate risk You'll learn how to make the right acquisitions by asking the right questions and ensure no one tries to pull the wool over your eyes You'll discover how to achieve a better price if you ever were to sell a business You'll learn what financial ratios are most important for your business, and how to budget effectively You'll learn how to analyze your business's performance You'll be able to deal with experts much better. For example, you'll know what an accountant is talking about when he says a competitor's revenue recognition policy is "on the aggressive side" And much, much more! So if you want to learn more about corporate finance, click "add to cart"!










The Executive's Guide to Financial Management


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A guide to expand and enhance the tools available to financial professionals to solve problems effectively, efficiently and to strengthen accounting controls. This is the result of an extensive effort to develop an innovative, highly practical approach to the task of improving financial management and cash flow.




Financial Management for the Small Business


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The sharp rise in numbers of new entrepreneurs has been accompanied by the urgent need to become financially literate: the most common cause of business failure is poor financial control stemming from an ignorance of the basics of business finance.Financial Management for the Small Business is intended to help those who find business finance confusing. Now in its sixth edition, it continues to provide advice on proper financial planning and control, and reinforces essential points through the use of questions within each section. Beginning with an introduction to the key financial statements, it moves on to look at the tools of financial analysis - the keys to controlling a business successfully. The final part of the book deals with business planning and budgeting, a vital area of business finance as most new ventures cannot get off the ground without a business plan, and existing businesses cannot expand.An invaluable read for aspiring entrepreneurs and those already in business, this book could mean the difference between success and failure.