The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting

The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting

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Book Description
A fundamental financial reference for non-financial people.

Senior managers, small business owners, and executive secretaries are now taking on tasks once handled exclusively by financial professionals. In non-technical explanations, The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting provides all the finance and accounting concepts, terms, practices, and procedures essential to business. This welcome resource makes even the most complex and daunting financial principles easy to grasp and apply, with an emphasis on making sound business decisions. Included is a CD-ROM featuring Excel templates of frequently used spreadsheets--including corporate financial statements, cash flow/financial analysis, and budgets--all easily adaptable and ready to go to work. Additionally a glossary of key terms and a list of truly useful Web sits are added.

Within its pages, the finance-challenged will learn the ins and outs of:

• Assets, liabilities, stockholder equity, and the role of GAAP. • Depreciation, amortization, and accruals. • Cash and investment management, plus LIFO versus FIFO. • Net value, cash flow, and interest rates. • Financing, for the short and the long term, and capital resources. • Mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, and going private.

"The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting is easy to follow, a technical guide written in "non-technical" terms and a good resource for corporate managers with little or no financial experience."

-Theresa Gillen, Director, North American Shared Services Pfizer Inc. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Book Info
Helps the consumer understand the basic, practical elements of finance and accounting, emphasizing those aspects needed to run a business. Looks at processes from right-brained and left-brained perspectives, challenges prevailing F&A beliefs about how things should be done, and finds creative solutions to seemingly impossible tasks. Softcover. DLC: Finance. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting

The Practical Guide to Finance and Accounting,Susan M. Drake,Renee G. Dingler,Prentice Hall,0130270067,Accounting,Accounting - General,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Finance

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