Financial intelligence : a manager's guide to knowing what the numbers really mean
Karen Berman and Joe Knight teach the basics of finance--but with a twist. Accountants rely on estimates, assumptions, and judgment calls. Savvy managers need to know how those sources of possible bias can affect the financials and that sometimes the numbers can be challenged. While providing the fo...
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Harvard Business School Press ,
c2006
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The art of finance (and why it matters)
- 2. the (many) peculiarities of the income statement
- 3. The balance sheet reveals the most
- 4. Cash is king
- 5. Ratios : learning what the numbers are really telling you
- 6. How to calculate (and really understand) return on investment
- 7. Applied financial intelligence : working capital management
- 8. Creating a financial intelligent department (and organization)