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Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 20,4 MB
Release : 2007-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1422163792
Explains the essential concepts of finance—budgeting, forecasting, and planning—to managers who are not financial managers. Understanding Finance contains relevant information on how to: understand what the three basic financial statements and ratio analysis tell about a company's financial health; develop and track a budget; and assess an investment opportunity.
Author : Javier Estrada
Publisher : Pearson Education
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780273675402
No other book is a comprehensive toolkit of financial issues, instructive, and so easy to read, all at the same time - this is an easy-to-read guide to the hard-to-understand stuff of business finance. The author regularly gives talks, seminars, and courses for executives and is very aware of their lack of understanding (or their inability to remember) simple but key financial concepts and tools. He is continually asked to recommend a simple book that helps them to refresh key financial concepts and tools. Self-contained: Other than some elementary algebra, no other previous knowledge will be necessary to understand the concepts discussed. Comprehensive: It will contain most or all topics, concepts, and tools that executives can easily forget, find hard to understand, and/or would like to know more about. Simple and easy to read: Many well-educated executives have all but forgotten their finance and are regularly put off by books that are far more academic than they need. This book will be written in a simple and conversational style. Concise with short chapters throughout: This is critical as many executives are put off by long books or never ending chapters. Essential elementary theory and many real-world examples. All concepts and tools will be illustrated with catchy and factual examples. Excel: Spreadsheets have become an inseparable part of working in Finance and this book will show readers how to use Excel to simplify their work. Test Yourself: problems with worked numerical solutions throughout.
Author : Lawrence N. Dworsky
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 35,39 MB
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0470538384
A user-friendly presentation of the essential concepts and tools for calculating real costs and profits in personal finance Understanding the Mathematics of Personal Finance explains how mathematics, a simple calculator, and basic computer spreadsheets can be used to break down and understand even the most complex loan structures. In an easy-to-follow style, the book clearly explains the workings of basic financial calculations, captures the concepts behind loans and interest in a step-by-step manner, and details how these steps can be implemented for practical purposes. Rather than simply providing investment and borrowing strategies, the author successfully equips readers with the skills needed to make accurate and effective decisions in all aspects of personal finance ventures, including mortgages, annuities, life insurance, and credit card debt. The book begins with a primer on mathematics, covering the basics of arithmetic operations and notations, and proceeds to explore the concepts of interest, simple interest, and compound interest. Subsequent chapters illustrate the application of these concepts to common types of personal finance exchanges, including: Loan amortization and savings Mortgages, reverse mortgages, and viatical settlements Prepayment penalties Credit cards The book provides readers with the tools needed to calculate real costs and profits using various financial instruments. Mathematically inclined readers will enjoy the inclusion of mathematical derivations, but these sections are visually distinct from the text and can be skipped without the loss of content or complete understanding of the material. In addition, references to online calculators and instructions for building the calculations involved in a spreadsheet are provided. Furthermore, a related Web site features additional problem sets, the spreadsheet calculators that are referenced and used throughout the book, and links to various other financial calculators. Understanding the Mathematics of Personal Finance is an excellent book for finance courses at the undergraduate level. It is also an essential reference for individuals who are interested in learning how to make effective financial decisions in their everyday lives.
Author : Bob Cinnamon
Publisher : Kogan Page Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2010-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0749460210
The modern marketplace is increasingly unpredictable and there is an ever-greater need for non-financial managers to understand the financial and management accounting process. How to Understand Business Finance is part of the bestselling Creating Success series published in association with the Sunday Times, which has been translated into 25 languages with over 500, 000 copies sold. This book is written for those managing a business in a real market. It provides a quick and effective course in financial literacy, aimed at the pursuit of business growth, in the context of the journey of a business from initial set-up through its first year of trading. As well as learning how to understand balance sheets and profit and loss accounts, readers will also learn the principles of: market dynamics; budgeting and forecasting; fixed and variable costs; break-even analysis; the difference between profit and cash; financial ratios for measuring business performance; investment appraisal; stock market ratios; shareholder value; financial measures for improving business performance, and much more. How to Understand Business Finance helps you to understand double entry bookkeeping, supply chain management, the difference in American and British accounting terminology, financial ratios for measuring business performance, common acronyms, and the real cash flow implications of working capital.
Author : Kenneth M. Morris
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780743266321
Covers banking services, credit, home finance, financial planning, investments, and taxes.
Author : Stuart Warner
Publisher : Pearson UK
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1292123656
The Finance Book will help you think and manage like a financial strategist. Written specifically for non-finance professionals, it will give you all you need to know to manage your business more effectively and think more strategically. It will help you to: Have the confidence to read and interpret financial statements Ask the right questions about financial performance Apply important financial tools and ratios Learn how to think financially and make better strategic financial decisions Covering business finance, accounting fundamentals, budgeting, profitability and cash management, you'll find the tools you need in order to make the best financial decisions for your business. 'Essential reading for any non-finance professional. This is an easy to read and practical guide to the world of finance.’ Paul Herman, Group CEO, Bluebox Corporate Finance ‘A really helpful, well organised and easy to understand primer and reference book for those who aren’t accountants but still need to understand the accounts.’ Roger Siddle, Chairman, Cordium Group ‘A great book. At last, a guide that demystifies and encourages business owners to practically understand financial matters. A must read.’ Gordon Vater CEO, RiiG Limited
Author : Franklin J. Plewa, Jr.
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471103868
The term "cash flow" is used to describe the analysis of all the changes that affect a company's cash account during an accounting period. This book tells readers everything they need to know to understand cash flow and incorporate that knowledge into their strategic management process.
Author : Franklin Allen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191622869
What causes a financial crisis? Can financial crises be anticipated or even avoided? What can be done to lessen their impact? Should governments and international institutions intervene? Or should financial crises be left to run their course? In the aftermath of the Asian financial crisis, many blamed international institutions, corruption, governments, and flawed macro and microeconomic policies not only for causing the crisis but also unnecessarily lengthening and deepening it. Based on ten years of research, the authors develop a theoretical approach to analyzing financial crises. Beginning with a review of the history of financial crises and providing readers with the basic economic tools needed to understand the literature, the authors construct a series of increasingly sophisticated models. Throughout, the authors guide the reader through the existing theoretical and empirical literature while also building on their own theoretical approach. The text presents the modern theory of intermediation, introduces asset markets and the causes of asset price volatility, and discusses the interaction of banks and markets. The book also deals with more specialized topics, including optimal financial regulation, bubbles, and financial contagion.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 2017-11-06
Category :
ISBN : 9264281282
Understanding Financial Accounts seeks to show how a range of questions on financial developments can be answered with the framework of financial accounts and balance sheets, by providing non-technical explanations illustrated with practical examples.
Author : Edwin T. Burton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 2013-03-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1118331923
An in-depth look into the various aspects of behavioral finance Behavioral finance applies systematic analysis to ideas that have long floated around the world of trading and investing. Yet it is important to realize that we are still at a very early stage of research into this discipline and have much to learn. That is why Edwin Burton has written Behavioral Finance: Understanding the Social, Cognitive, and Economic Debates. Engaging and informative, this timely guide contains valuable insights into various issues surrounding behavioral finance. Topics addressed include noise trader theory and models, research into psychological behavior pioneered by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky, and serial correlation patterns in stock price data. Along the way, Burton shares his own views on behavioral finance in order to shed some much-needed light on the subject. Discusses the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) and its history, and presents the background of the emergence of behavioral finance Examines Shleifer's model of noise trading and explores other literature on the topic of noise trading Covers issues associated with anomalies and details serial correlation from the perspective of experts such as DeBondt and Thaler A companion Website contains supplementary material that allows you to learn in a hands-on fashion long after closing the book In order to achieve better investment results, we must first overcome our behavioral finance biases. This book will put you in a better position to do so.
