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

by Richard Stutely
July 2008
Beginner
432 pages
11h 40m
English
Pearson
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Why analyse trends?

As an entrepreneur or manager, you are probably intensely concerned with ensuring that sales continue to rise year after year, or at worst stay steady; that inventory levels do not become too high or too low; that production is managed to keep pace with demand; or that some other indicators change in the right direction. If you are the chief executive you will be worried about all of these and more.

There are some handy tricks which help you analyse and manage trends. The techniques are definitely not onerous and they can be delightfully revealing. It is well worth spending a few minutes becoming familiar with them. Essentially, you are doing nothing more strenuous than looking for patterns, and it is surprising how well this ...

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