How to Understand Business Finance

Name: How to Understand Business Finance
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ISBN: 9780749446680

ISBN-10: 0749446684

ISBN-13: 9780749446680

Edition: 2006

Authors: Brian Helweg-Larsen, Robert Cinnamon

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Starting with how to understand the balance sheet and profit and loss accounting, the book also covers: market dynamics, budgeting and forecasting, fixed and variable costs, break-even analysis, the difference between profit and cash, financial ratios for measuring business performance, stock market ratios, shareholder value, financial measures for improving business performance, and more.

Book details

List price: $17.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Kogan Page, Limited
Publication date: 5/28/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.46" wide x 8.46" long x 0.39" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

Brian Helweg-Larsen is a global educator and director of Profitability Business Solutions.

Robert Cinnamon is a director of the international training and consultancy firm, INSIGHT Marketing and People. He runs a popular master class and in-company training program Demystifying Financial Management.




So why do you want to know more about finance? Learning


A tale of two languages



The business cycle Setting up a company


The Moving Balance Sheetr


Creating value


Cash and profit


Setting up and running the business - the opening month


Profit and loss (P&L) account


The balance sheet


Month 2 business cycle


Going to the bank


Doing the books



The books and double-entry bookkeeping Reports


Double-entry bookkeeping


Taxation



Where do all the business functions fit in? Sales


Marketing


Manufacturing


Supply chain management


Human resources


IT, maintenance and engineering


Research and development


Finance



Financial planning - the budgets Budgeting


Cash flow forecast


Avoiding bankruptcy


how to generate cash



Measuring business performance: financial ratios Size


P&L account (income statement) analysis


Balance sheet analysis



How our investors see us - stock market ratios


What accounts do our investors want to see?


Shares



Valuing a company Asset value


Multipliers


Market capitalisation


Balanced scorecard


Cash flows



Shareholder value and economic profit


Earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA)


Economic profit


Total shareholder return (TSR)



The hidden costs - depreciation and amortisation Depreciation


Goodwill


Intangible assets


Capitalising costs



What must we sell to make a profit?


Variable costs


Fixed costs


Break-even point



Tools for evaluating projects Payback


Discounted cash flow (DCF)


Net present value (NPV)


Internal rate of return (IRR)


Terminal values


Economic profit


Pitfalls


Other factors



Where is all our cash? Managing working capital Stock (inventories)


Debtors


Creditors


Write-offs


Cash flow implications of working capital



Next steps... Training


Contact details



Glossary of financial terms