Financial times briefing on critical financial issues

A concise and pithy reference guide that gives senior managers and executives powerful, practical and accessible guidance on everything they need to know about running a profitable, cash generating business unit offering real shareholder value. For non-financial executives in a key functional or gen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Finch, Brian, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Harlow, England : Financial Times Prentice Hall, is an imprint of Pearson 2011.
Edición:1st edition
Colección:Financial Times briefings.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Financial Times Briefings
  • Fast answers to critical business decisions
  • Praise for Financial Times Briefing on Critical Financial Issues
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One In brief
  • The executive précis
  • Introduction
  • What is it and what do I need to know?
  • Introduction
  • Adjustments to cashflow
  • The clarity of cash
  • Liquidity
  • Shareholder value
  • The efficient market hypothesis
  • Why accounts don't help in valuation
  • Profit improvement
  • Capital allocation
  • Financial risk
  • Why do it? The risks and rewards
  • Cashflow
  • Liquidity
  • Shareholder value
  • Profit improvement
  • Capital allocation
  • Financial risk
  • Who's doing it and who has done it?
  • Introduction and examples
  • What do success and failure look like?
  • Identifying success
  • Part Two In practice
  • How to do it: the critical financial issues
  • Cashflow choices
  • Liquidity
  • Shareholder value
  • Profit improvement
  • Capital allocation
  • Financial risk
  • How to measure the critical financial issues
  • Cashflow
  • Liquidity
  • Other indicators
  • Shareholder value
  • Profit improvement
  • Capital allocation
  • Financial risk
  • How to manage the critical financial issues
  • Cashflow management
  • Liquidity
  • Shareholder value
  • Profit improvement
  • Capital allocation
  • Financial risk
  • How to justify addressing the critical financial issues: the business case
  • Introduction
  • How to talk about the critical financial issues
  • Involving all employees
  • Profit improvement through collaboration
  • The language of capital allocation
  • Talking about financial risk
  • Part Three Intervention
  • Executive intervention
  • What questions should I ask?
  • When is my intervention needed?
  • What are the make or break decisions?
  • What levers should I pull?
  • How do we know whether we've succeeded or failed?
  • Part Four In depth.
  • Additional resources
  • Books
  • Online references
  • Advisers and consultants
  • Courses
  • Index.