May 2015
Beginner
1244 pages
13h 49m
English
book
HBR 20-Minute Manager Boxed Set (10 Books) (HBR 20-Minute Manager Series)
by Harvard Business Review
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Contents
Why Understand Finance? 1
Navigating the Three Major Financial
Statements 7
Accounting methods 11
The income statement 13
The balance sheet 17
The cash fl ow statement 22
Using the Statements to Measure
Financial Health 29
Profi tability ratios 33
Effi ciency ratios 35
Liquidity ratios 37
Leverage ratios 38
Other ways to measure fi nancial health 39
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Preparing a Budget 45
Top-down versus bottom-up budgeting 49
Getting started 50
Articulating your assumptions 53
Quantifying your assumptions 59
Calculating Return on Investment 63
Costs and benefi ts 66
Payback period 69
Net present value and internal rate of return 70
Break-even analysis 75
Sensitivity analysis
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