Book Description

CCH's Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions. The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence. CONTENTS; The 2019-2020 edition of the Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management contains 60 chapters covering the following topic areas: -- Responsibilities of the Controller -- SEC Reporting -- Controller's Reports -- Information Technology Applications, including chapters on database management systems and the client/server environment, and using computers in financial decision making, and XBRL, cloud computing, and wireless technology -- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including financial statement reporting, accounting and disclosures, interim and segmental reporting, and more -- Management Accounting, including product costing systems and classifications, joint products and by-products, analysis of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis and leverage, cost allocation, contribution margin analysis for nonroutine decisions, budgeting and financial modeling, using variance analysis, improving management performance, ABC, JIT, TQM, decision making in corporate financial management, and more -- Internal Auditing and Control, including internal audit of financial statement accounts, the internal audit function and internal control, and forensic accounting --Financial and Risk Analysis and Financial Forecasting, including financial statement analysis, managing analysis of operations, controlling revenue and costs, managing and analyzing risk, reengineering and outsourcing the business, derivative products and financial engineering, mergers and acquisitions, divestiture, business strategies and shareholder value analysis, financial and earnings forecasting, cash flow forecasting and cash budgeting, forecasting corporate financial distress, corporate valuations, and more. -- Liquidity and Treasury, including management of working capital and cash, accounts receivable, inventory, corporate investments in securities, portfolio diversification and risk management, short- and long-term financing, term loans and leasing, warrants and convertibles, cost of capital and capital structure decisions, and more -- Tax Preparation and Planning, including payroll taxes and how taxes affect business decisions About the Authors: Jae K. Shim, Ph.D., is a financial consultant to several companies and Professor of Accounting and Finance at California State University in Long Beach. Dr. Shim has 40 books to his credit and has published more than 50 articles in accounting and financial journals. Joel G. Siegel, Ph.D., CPA, is a retired Professor of Accounting and Finance at Queens College of the City University of New York. He was previously employed by Coopers & Lybrand and Arthur Andersen. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in accounting and finance to many organizations, including Citicorp, International Telephone and Telegraph, United Technologies, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Person-Wolinsky Associates. He is the author of 67 books on accounting and financial topics. Nick Dauber, MS, CPA, is an accounting practitioner with client responsibilities primarily in auditing and taxation. His prior experience includes service as an audit and tax manager at a CPA firm. He is also an Instructor of Auditing and Taxation at Queens College of the City University of New York and was a lecturer and writer in auditing and taxation for Person-Wolinsky Associates. Marc H. Levine, Ph.D., CPA, is a financial accounting consultant and Professor of Accounting and Deputy Chairman of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at Queens College - CUNY. Dr. Levine was previously associated with Deloitte and Touche, CPAs. Dr. Levine is an author of CCH's GAAP Handbook of Policies and Procedures, and has authored seven books, including those published for Warren, Gorham and Lamont, American Management Association, and Thomson and Trentop. He has authored 49 professional and academic articles in publications such as The CPA Journal, Practical Accountant, National Public Accountant, Michigan CPA, Journal of Corporate Accounting, Accountants Record, Massachusetts CPA Review, Virginia Accountant Quarterly, Cost and Management, Management Accountant, and The Accountant.