Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals

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What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers

By: Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case

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Paperback | 15 April 2008

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As an IT manager, you''re expected to make key decisions and recommend major investments. And that means understanding your decisions'' financial impact on your company. But if you''re like many information technology practitioners, you may feel uncomfortable incorporating the financials into your day-to-day work.

Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager''s Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for IT experts.

Drawing on their work training tens of thousands of managers and employees at leading organizations worldwide, the authors illuminate the basics of financial management and measurement and provide hands-on activities for practicing what you are reading. You''ll discover:

· Why the assumptions behind financial data matter
· What your company''s income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement reveal
· How to use ratios to assess your company''s financial health
· How to calculate return on IT investments
· Ways to use financial information to support your company''s business units and do your own job better
· How to instill financial intelligence throughout your team

Authoritative and accessible, Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals empowers you to "talk numbers" confidently with your boss, colleagues, and direct reports -- and understand how the financials affect your part of the business.

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Preface: What Is Financial Intelligence?	p. xi
The Art of Finance (and Why It Matters to It)
You Can't Always Trust the Numbers	p. 3
Spotting Assumptions, Estimates, and Biases	p. 10
Why Increase Your Financial Intelligence?	p. 17
Part One Toolbox	p. 28
Getting what you want
The players and what they do
The (Many) Peculiarities of the Income Statement
Profit Is an Estimate	p. 33
Cracking the Code of the Income Statement	p. 39
Revenue: The Issue Is Recognition	p. 47
Costs and Expenses: No Hard-and-Fast Rules	p. 53
The Many Forms of Profit	p. 65
Part Two Toolbox	p. 71
Variance; Percent calculations; Line of sight
The Balance Sheet Reveals the Most
Understanding Balance Sheet Basics	p. 77
Assets: More Estimates and Assumptions (Except for Cash)	p. 83
On the Other Side: Liabilities and Equity	p. 93
Why the Balance Sheet Balances	p. 98
The Income Statement Affects the Balance Sheet	p. 101
Part Three Toolbox	p. 106
Employees as assets
Expenses versus capital expenditures
Cash is King
Cash Is a Reality Check	p. 111
Profit [not equal] Cash (and You Need Both)	p. 115
The Language of Cash Flow	p. 122
How Cash Connects with Everything Else	p. 126
Why Cash Matters	p. 134
Part Four Toolbox	p. 138
Free cash flow
Ratios: Learning What the Numbers are Really Telling You
The Power of Ratios	p. 143
Profitability Ratios: The Higher the Better (Mostly)	p. 149
Leverage Ratios: The Balancing Act	p. 155
Liquidity Ratios: Can We Pay Our Bills?	p. 159
Efficiency Ratios: Making the Most of Your Assets	p. 162
Part Five Toolbox	p. 168
Ratios for the business; Ratios for IT
Leading versus lagging indicators
Percent-of-sales analysis; Ratio relationships
How to Calculate (and Really Understand) Return on Investment
The Building Blocks of ROI	p. 175
Figuring ROI: The Nitty-Gritty	p. 182
Part Six Toolbox	p. 193
ROI of an IT Project
Applied Financial Intelligence: Working Capital Management
The Magic of Managing the Balance Sheet	p. 203
Your Balance Sheet Levers	p. 206
Homing In on Cash Conversion	p. 212
Part Seven Toolbox	p. 216
Understanding accounts-receivable aging
Creating a Financially Intelligent It Department (and Organization)
Financial Literacy, Transparency, and Corporate Performance	p. 219
Financial Literacy Strategies	p. 225
Part Eight Toolbox	p. 231
Understanding Sarbanes-Oxley
Sample Financials	p. 235
Exercises to Build Your Financial Intelligence-Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Ratios	p. 239
Kimberly-Clark and FedEx Financial Statements	p. 267
Notes	p. 275
Acknowledgments	p. 277
Index	p. 281
About the Authors	p. 297
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