Book description
The thorough reference that goes wherever you go
The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.
Covers all major developments in finance and accounting every CFO needs to know about including IFRS, Web-based planning, and ranging from financial reporting and internal control to financial decision making for shareholder value maximization
Includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports
Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book, as well as coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and its impact on financial reporting, XBRL reporting, risk management and disaster recovery, Web-based planning and budgeting, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and environmental costing
Simplifying day-to-day work in dozens of critical areas, The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy chief financial officer (CFO), controller, treasurer, financial director, budgeting director, and other financial professionals in public practice and private industry.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- What This Book Will Do for You
- Part One: Reports and Filings
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Part Two: Financial Reporting
- Chapter Three: Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement
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Chapter Four: Financial Statement Reporting: The Balance Sheet
- ASSETS
- ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE
- INVENTORY
- FIXED ASSETS
- DISCLOSURE
- LIABILITIES
- ACCOUNTING FOR COMPENSATED ABSENCES
- ENVIRONMENTAL OBLIGATIONS
- EXIT OR DISPOSAL ACTIVITIES
- FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
- FAIR VALUE OPTION FOR FINANCIAL ASSETS AND FINANCIAL LIABILITIES
- STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS
- AVAILABLE-FOR-SALE AND HELD-TO-MATURITY SECURITIES
- Chapter Five: Statement of Cash Flows
- Chapter Six: Accounting and Disclosures
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Chapter Seven: Key Financial Accounting Areas
- CONSOLIDATION
- INVESTMENTS IN STOCKS AND BONDS
- LEASES
- PENSION PLANS
- POSTRETIREMENT BENEFITS EXCLUDING PENSIONS
- INCOME TAX ALLOCATION
- DEFERRED TAX LIABILITY VERSUS DEFERRED TAX ASSET
- TAX RATES
- FOREIGN CURRENCY ACCOUNTING
- TRANSLATION OF FOREIGN CURRENCY STATEMENTS WHEN THE FOREIGN CURRENCY IS THE FUNCTIONAL CURRENCY
- INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPORTING STANDARDS
- Chapter Eight: Interim and Segmental Reporting
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Part Three: Cost Management and IT Systems
- Chapter Nine: Cost Management and Analysis
- Chapter Ten: Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Leverage
- Chapter Eleven: Short-Term Decisions
- Chapter Twelve: Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting
- Chapter Thirteen: Risk Management
- Chapter Fourteen: Capital Budgeting and Real Options
- Chapter Fifteen: The What and Why of Responsibility Accounting
- Chapter Sixteen: Control of Profit Centers
- Chapter Seventeen: Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing
- Chapter Eighteen: How to Analyze and Improve Corporate Profitability and Shareholder Value
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Chapter Nineteen: Information Technology and IT Systems
- COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE FOR BUSINESS
- ROLE OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN
- MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
- WHO USES EXECUTIVE INFORMATION SYSTEMS?
- VALUE CHAIN MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE
- EXTENSIBLE BUSINESS REPORTING LANGUAGE
- WEB 2.0
- CLOUD COMPUTING AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE
- MOBILE COMPUTING (WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY)
- HANDHELD DEVICE SECURITY AND CONTINGENCY PLANNING
- DISASTER RECOVERY AND BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANNING
- CFO'S VIEW OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: A CURRENT SURVEY
- Part Four: Management of Assets and Liabilities
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Part Five: Financing the Business
- Chapter Twenty-Four: Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing
- Chapter Twenty-Five: Long-Term Financing
- Chapter Twenty-Six: Warrants and Convertibles
- Chapter Twenty-Seven: Cost of Capital and Capital Structure Decisions
- Chapter Twenty-Eight: Dividend Policy
- Chapter Twenty-Nine: Financial Management of Multinational Corporations
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Part Six: Financial Analysis, Insurance and Legal Considerations, and Economics
- Chapter Thirty: Financial Statement Analysis
- Chapter Thirty-One: Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs
- Chapter Thirty-Two: Insurance and Legal Considerations
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Chapter Thirty-Three: Reading Economic Indicators
- HOW CAN YOU KEEP TRACK OF THE ECONOMY WITH ECONOMIC AND MONETARY INDICATORS?
- HOUSING-RELATED MEASURES
- INDICES OF LEADING, COINCIDENT, AND LAGGING ECONOMIC INDICATORS
- OTHER IMPORTANT ECONOMIC INDICES
- MONETARY INDICATORS AND HOW THEY IMPACT THE ECONOMY
- UNDERSTANDING ECONOMIC DATA AND INDICATORS
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS AND STOCKS AND BUSINESSES
- ECONOMIC INDICATORS AND BOND YIELDS
- Part Seven: Liquidity and Treasury
- Part Eight: Taxation
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Part Nine: Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures, Failure, and Reorganization
- Chapter Thirty-Six: Mergers and Acquisitions
- Chapter Thirty-Seven: Divestiture
- Chapter Thirty-Eight: Forecasting Corporate Financial Distress
- Chapter Thirty-Nine: Failure and Reorganization
- Chapter Forty: Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
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Chapter Forty-One: Financial Statement Analysis: Key Financial Ratios and Metrics for Nonprofits
- TREND ANALYSIS
- ANALYSIS OF THE BALANCE SHEET
- LIQUIDITY ANALYSIS
- APPRAISAL OF SOLVENCY, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, AND NET ASSETS (FUND BALANCE)
- EVALUATION OF THE STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES
- PERFORMANCE METRICS
- SPOTTING POTENTIAL BANKRUPTCY AND AVOIDING FINANCIAL PROBLEMS
- CASE STUDY IN FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
- Appendix
- About the Authors
- Index
Product information
- Title: CFO Fundamentals: Your Quick Guide to Internal Controls, Financial Reporting, IFRS, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, and More
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118132494
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