January 2024
Intermediate to advanced
720 pages
17h 20m
English
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About the Author
Jack Alexander is an experienced financial and operating executive turned consultant, author, and lecturer. He provides advisory services to businesses across a wide range of financial and operating areas, including strategic planning, value creation, M&A, improving profitability, and cash flow, financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and business performance management (BPM). His firm, Jack Alexander & Associates, LLC, also offers customized training and workshops on FP&A and financial management. Jack is a frequent speaker on FP&A and financial management.
Prior to founding the consulting practice, Jack served as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of EG&G Inc. (renamed PerkinElmer), a global $2.5 billion technology and services company with over 40 operating units and also as CFO with Mercury Computer Systems. He was previously employed by General Refractories and Coopers & Lybrand.
Jack was a Senior Lecturer in Babson College's MBA program and School of Executive Education, and serves on the advisory board to the finance and economics department at Coastal Carolina University. He is a CPA and earned an MBA from Rider University and a BS from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
He is the author of Performance Dashboards and Analysis for Value Creation (Wiley, 2006), Financial Planning and Analysis and Business Performance Management (Wiley, 2018), and Financial Management: Partner in Driving Performance and Value (Wiley, 2024).
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