Book description
This collection includes: "Finance Quiz: Do You Know the Basics?" "The Key Financial Statements," "The Fundamental Laws of Business," "Using Statements to Measure Financial Health," "Grow Your Profits by Streamlining Your Business," "Working Your Assets to Boost Your Growth," "Profit Does Not Equal Cash (And You Need Both)," "Why Cash Matters," "Your Balance Sheet Levers," "What's Your Working Capital Model? A Case Study," "Learn to Speak the Language of ROI," "Practical Tools for Management Decisions: Making the Numbers Work for You," "What the Financial Statements Don't Tell You," and more.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Guide to Finance Basics for Managers
- Table of contents
- Finance Basics: Don’t Be Afraid
- Finance Quiz: Do You Know the Basics?
- The Key Financial Statements: Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Cash Flow Statement
- The Fundamental Laws of Business
- Making Good Decisions—and Moving Those Numbers
- Using Statements to Measure Financial Health
- Grow Your Profits by Streamlining Your Business
- Working Your Assets to Boost Your Growth
- Profit ≠ Cash (and You Need Both)
- Why Cash Matters
- Your Balance Sheet Levers
- What’s Your Working Capital Model? A Case Study
- Learn to Speak the Language of ROI
- Practical Tools for Management Decisions: Making the Numbers Work for You
- The Limits of Financial Data
- What the Financial Statements Don’t Tell You
- The Five Traps of Performance Measurement
- Finance Quiz: How Much Have You Learned?
- Glossary
- Back Cover
Product information
- Title: HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2011
- Publisher(s): Harvard Business Review Press
- ISBN: 9781422143346
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