The Definitive Guide to Business Finance: What smart managers do with the numbers, Second Edition

Figuring better ways to manage

There is no escaping it. Managers have to deal with numbers. The little digits come at you from all angles. They bubble up from below – your subordinates continuously bombard you with data. They are fired in sideways. You will receive all manner of potentially exciting or troubling figures from marketing and sales, production, research and development and, especially, accounting and finance. They drop in from above, often uninvited, in missives and instructions. You will receive them from customers, suppliers, business partners, bankers, brokers and other well-meaning outsiders. You will find them in every newspaper, magazine and journal. You will even hear them on broadcast media – in programming apparently intended ...