Book description
Quick-reference guidance showing new controllers how to enhance performance while avoiding pitfalls
Designed to give new controllers a firm foundation in the concepts of managing the accounting department, locating GAAP information, and analyzing and knowing what to do with key accounting information, The Essential Controller, Second Edition is the invaluable primer you can turn to for the foundation you need to succeed. Whether your business is large, small, or medium-sized, this volume provides a complete overview of the controller's responsibilities and the role that today's controllers should be playing.
Offers new coverage of finance strategy
Updates taxation strategy
Includes a new controller checklist
Quick reference guide that controllers can turn to
Also by Steven M. Bragg: The Controller's Function: The Work of the Managerial Accountant, Fourth Edition
The Essential Controller, Second Edition is the go-to handbook that you will use every day for dealing with the everyday issues facing today's controllers.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1: Accounting in the Corporation
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CHAPTER 2: Controller's Responsibilities
- VARIATIONS ON THE TITLE
- PLANNING FUNCTION
- CONTROL FUNCTION
- REPORTING FUNCTION
- ACCOUNTING FUNCTION
- ADDITIONAL CONTROLLER FUNCTIONS IN SMALLER COMPANIES
- CONTROLLER'S JOB DESCRIPTION
- RELATIONSHIP OF THE CONTROLLER TO THE CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
- FUTURE CHANGES IN THE CONTROLLER'S ORIGINS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- MANAGING RAPID GROWTH
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CHAPTER 3: Chief Financial Officer: From Controller to Facilitator of Change
- UNDERSTANDING WHAT CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS WANT
- TASK OF THE CFO
- DEVELOP AND COMMUNICATE A COMPELLING FINANCE AGENDA
- BUILD A COMMITMENT TO CHANGE WITHIN FINANCE
- CHANGE EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT PRACTICES
- ENLIST THE SUPPORT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
- MOBILIZE THE ORGANIZATION
- INSTITUTIONALIZE CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT
- CHAPTER 4: Operational Accounting *
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CHAPTER 5: Cost Accounting and Costing Systems *
- PURPOSE OF COST ACCOUNTING INFORMATION
- INPUT: DATA COLLECTION SYSTEMS
- PROCESSING: DATA SUMMARIZATION SYSTEMS
- PROCESSING: JOB COSTING
- PROCESSING: PROCESS COSTING
- PROCESSING: STANDARD COSTING
- PROCESSING: DIRECT COSTING
- PROCESSING: THROUGHPUT COSTING
- PROCESSING: ACTIVITY-BASED COSTING
- PROCESSING: TARGET COSTING
- OUTPUTS: COST VARIANCES
- CHAPTER 6: Ratio and Trend Analysis
- CHAPTER 7: Internal Control Systems
- CHAPTER 8: The Fast Close *
- CHAPTER 9: Internal Audit Function
- CHAPTER 10: Recruiting, Training, and Supervision
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CHAPTER 11: Controller's Role in Investor Relations
- OBJECTIVES OF THE INVESTOR RELATIONS FUNCTION
- EVOLVING NATURE OF THE FUNCTION
- COMMUNICATION VEHICLES FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS
- INVESTOR RELATIONS MESSAGE RECIPIENTS
- INFORMATION NEEDS OF THE FINANCIAL ANALYST
- INFORMATION NEEDS OF OTHER GROUPS
- DISCLOSURE POLICY
- ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE FOR INVESTOR RELATIONS
- ROLE OF THE CONTROLLER AND OTHER PRINCIPALS
- SOME SUGGESTED FINANCIAL MARKET OBJECTIVES
- SOME SUGGESTED METHODS
- CHAPTER 12: Taxation Strategy
- About the Author
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Essential Controller: An Introduction to What Every Financial Manager Must Know, Second Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2012
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781118169971
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