Financial intelligence : a manager's guide to knowing what the numbers really mean /
By: Berman, Karen
Title By: Knight, Joe | Case, John
Material type: BookPublisher: Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c2006.Description: xiv, 257 p. : ill ; 25 cm.ISBN: 1591397642 (hardcover : alk. paper)Subject(s): Financial statements | Cash management | Corporations -- FinanceDDC classification: 658.15/11 Online resources: More online. | Location MapItem type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 658.15 BE FI (Browse shelf) | Available | T0028186 |
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658.15 BE CO Corporate financial strategy / | 658.15 BE CO Corporate finance : | 658.15 BE CO Corporate financial strategy / | 658.15 BE FI Financial intelligence : | 658.15 BE FU Fundamentals of corporate finance / | 658.15 BE IN Introducing corporate finance / | 658.15 BE IN Introducing corporate finance / |
Includes index.
You can't always trust the numbers -- Spotting assumptions, estimates, and biases -- Why increase your financial intelligence? -- Profit is an estimate -- Cracking the code of the income statement -- Revenue : the issue is recognition -- Costs and expenses : no hard and fast rules -- The many forms of profit -- Understanding balance-sheet basics -- Assets : more estimates and assumptions (except for cash) -- On the other side : liabilities and equity -- Why the balance sheet balances -- The income statement affects the balance sheet -- Cash is a reality check -- Profit? : cash (and you need both) -- The language of cash flow -- How cash connects with everything else -- Why cash matters -- The power of ratios -- Profitability ratios : the higher the better -- Leverage ratios : the balancing act -- Liquidity ratios : can we pay our bills? -- Efficiency ratios : making the most of your assets -- The building blocks of roi -- Figuring roi : the nitty gritty -- The magic of managing the balance sheet -- Your balance sheet levers -- Homing in on cash conversion -- Financial literacy and corporate performance -- Financial literacy strategies -- Financial transparency : our ultimate goal.