Finance for Managers

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Paperback | 2 January 2003

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Harvard Business Essentials are comprehensive, solution-oriented paperbacks for business readers of all levels of experience. Calculating and assessing the overall financial health of the business is an important part of any managerial position. From reading and deciphering financial statements, to understanding net present value, to calculating return on investment, Finance for Managers provides the fundamentals of financial literacy. Easy to use and nontechnical, this helpful guide gives managers the smart advice they need to increase their impact on financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting.

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Introduction	p. ix
Financial Statements: The Elements of Managerial Finance	p. 1
Why Financial Statements?	p. 2
The Balance Sheet	p. 3
The Income Statement	p. 11
The Cash Flow Statement	p. 14
Where to Find It	p. 18
Summing Up	p. 19
Finding Meaning in Financial Statements: A Look behind the Numbers	p. 21
Ratio Analysis	p. 22
Percentage-Format Financial Statements	p. 30
From Financial Measures to a Balanced Scorecard	p. 31
Summing Up	p. 34
Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules That Shape Financial Statements	p. 37
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles	p. 38
Accrual versus Cash Accounting	p. 39
Accounting for Inventory	p. 40
Depreciation	p. 46
Accounting for Leases	p. 51
Historic Cost and Its Implications	p. 54
Cost Accounting	p. 55
Summing Up	p. 59
Taxes: Important Details You Should Know	p. 61
Taxes and the Legal Form of the Business	p. 63
Progressive Tax Rates	p. 69
Marginal Tax Rate	p. 71
Credits versus Deductions	p. 72
Tax Loss Carryback and Carryforward	p. 73
Summing Up	p. 73
Financing Operations and Growth: Funding the Different Stages of Growth	p. 75
Start-Up Financing	p. 76
Financing Growth	p. 80
Other Forms of External Financing	p. 85
The Matching of Assets and Financing	p. 86
A Life-Cycle View of Financing	p. 88
Summing Up	p. 93
Money and Capital Markets: Another Option for Funding Growth	p. 95
Money Markets	p. 97
Capital Markets	p. 98
Capital Market Securities	p. 103
Summing Up	p. 107
Budgeting: Forecasting Your Company's Financial Future	p. 109
What Is Budgeting?	p. 111
Budget Functions	p. 111
Types of Budgets	p. 115
The Master Budget	p. 118
The Human Side of Budgeting	p. 128
Summing Up	p. 135
Practical Tools for Management Decisions: Making the Numbers Work for You	p. 137
Cost/Benefit Analysis	p. 138
Accounting Return on Investment	p. 140
Payback Period	p. 141
Breakeven Analysis	p. 142
Estimating Nonquantifiable Benefits and Costs	p. 146
Tracking Performance	p. 146
Summing Up	p. 147
The Time Value of Money: Calculating the Real Value of Your Investment	p. 149
What Is Time Value?	p. 150
Net Present Value	p. 153
Internal Rate of Return	p. 162
Sensitivity Analysis	p. 165
Economic Value Added	p. 167
Summing Up	p. 169
Valuation Concepts: Evaluating Opportunity	p. 171
Asset-Based Valuations	p. 174
Earnings-Based Valuation	p. 177
Discounted Cash Flow Method	p. 181
Summing Up	p. 184
Activity-Based Budgeting	p. 185
Notes	p. 189
Glossary	p. 191
For Further Reading	p. 200
Index	p. 203
About the Subject Adviser	p. 209
About the Writer	p. 210
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