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Financial intelligence : a manager's guide to knowing what the numbers really mean
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Title
Financial intelligence : a manager's guide to knowing what the numbers really mean / Karen Berman and Joe Knight ; with John Case.
ISBN
1591397642 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Boston : Harvard Business School Press, c2006.
Physical Description
1 online resource
Notes
Includes index.
Variant and related titles
Internet Archive collection.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 08, 2020
Contents
You can't always trust the numbers
Spotting assumptions, estimates, and biases
Why increase your financial intelligence?
Profit is an estimate
Cracking the code of the income statement
Revenue : the issue is recognition
Costs and expenses : no hard and fast rules
The many forms of profit
Understanding balance-sheet basics
Assets : more estimates and assumptions (except for cash)
On the other side : liabilities and equity
Why the balance sheet balances
The income statement affects the balance sheet
Cash is a reality check
Profit? : cash (and you need both)
The language of cash flow
How cash connects with everything else
Why cash matters
The power of ratios
Profitability ratios : the higher the better
Leverage ratios : the balancing act
Liquidity ratios : can we pay our bills?
Efficiency ratios : making the most of your assets
The building blocks of roi
Figuring roi : the nitty gritty
The magic of managing the balance sheet
Your balance sheet levers
Homing in on cash conversion
Financial literacy and corporate performance
Financial literacy strategies
Financial transparency : our ultimate goal.
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