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| What This Book Will Do for You | |
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| Reports And Filings | |
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| Chief Financial Offi cer's Role and Reports | |
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| Role of the Chief Financial Offi cer | |
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| Governmental Reporting | |
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| Reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act | |
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| XBRL Reporting | |
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| Other Reporting | |
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| SEC Rules | |
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| S Forms | |
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| SEC Regulations | |
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| SOX Reporting Requirements | |
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| Financial Reporting | |
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| Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement | |
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| How Is the Income Statement Presented? | |
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| Revenue Recognition | |
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| Construction Contracts | |
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| Expense Recognition | |
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| Financial Statement Reporting: The Balance Sheet | |
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| Assets | |
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| Accounts Receivable | |
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| Inventory | |
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| Fixed Assets | |
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| Disclosure | |
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| Liabilities | |
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| Accounting for Compensated Absences | |
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| Environmental Obligations | |
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| Exit or Disposal Activities | |
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| Fair Value Measurements | |
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| Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities | |
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| Statement of Cash Flows | |
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| Available-for-Sale and Held-to-Maturity Securities | |
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| Statement of Cash Flows | |
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| Classifi cations of Cash Flow | |
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| Analysis of the Statement of Cash Flows | |
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| Accounting and Disclosures | |
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| Accounting Changes | |
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| Futures Contracts | |
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| Various Disclosures | |
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| Key Financial Accounting Areas | |
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| Consolidation | |
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| Investments in Stocks and Bonds | |
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| Leases | |
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| Pension Plans | |
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| Postretirement Benefi ts Excluding Pensions | |
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| Income Tax Allocation | |
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| Deferred Tax Liability versus Deferred Tax Asset | |
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| Tax Rates | |
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| Foreign Currency Accounting | |
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| Translation of Foreign Currency Statements When the Foreign Currency Is the Functional Currency | |
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| International Financial Reporting Standards | |
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| Interim and Segmental Reporting | |
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| Interim Reporting | |
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| Segmental Reporting | |
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| Cost Management And It Systems | |
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| Cost Management and Analysis | |
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| What Is Cost Management and Analysis? | |
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| Strategic Cost Management | |
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| Overhead Costing | |
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| Activity-Based Costing | |
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| Activity-Based Management | |
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| Target Costing and Pricing | |
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| Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis and Leverage | |
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| Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis | |
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| What-If Analysis | |
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| Sales-Mix Analysis | |
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| CVP Analysis for Nonprofit Organizations | |
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| Leverage | |
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| Short-Term Decisions | |
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| Relevant Costs | |
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| Best Use of Scarce Resources | |
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| Theory of Constraints | |
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| Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting | |
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| Financial Forecasting: The Percent-of-Sales Method | |
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| Budgeting | |
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| Some Financial Calculations | |
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| Budgeting Software | |
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| Using an Electronic Spreadsheet to Develop a Budget Plan | |
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| Latest Generation of Budgeting and Planning Software and E-Budgeting | |
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| Risk Management | |
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| Enterprise Risk Management | |
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| An Approach to Risk Management | |
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| A Close Look at Risk Management | |
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| How to Reduce Investment Risk: Diversify | |
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| Beta-The Capital Asset Pricing Model | |
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| Arbitrage Pricing Model | |
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| Capital Budgeting and Real Options | |
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| Time Value Fundamentals | |
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| Popular Evaluation Techniques | |
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| Limited Funds for Capital Spending | |
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| Real Options | |
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| Discovery-Driven Planning | |
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| Effect of Income Taxes on Capital Budgeting Decisions | |
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| The What and Why of Responsibility Accounting | |
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| Responsibility Accounting Basics | |
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| Cost Center Performance and Standard Costs | |
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| Flexible Budgets and Performance Reports | |
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| Production Mix and Yield Variances | |
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| Control of Profit Centers | |
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| How Do You Evaluate Profit Centers? | |
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| Profit Variance Analysis | |
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| Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing | |
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| Rate of Return on Investment | |
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| Residual Income | |
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| Investment Decisions under ROI and RI | |
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| Transfer Pricing | |
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| How to Analyze and Improve Corporate Profitability and Shareholder Value | |
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| Measures of Managerial Performance and Shareholder Return | |
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| Sustainable Rate of Growth | |
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| Economic Value Added | |
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| Balanced Scorecard | |
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| Information Technology and IT Systems | |
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| Computer Technologies Available for Business | |
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| Role of Information Systems in the Strategic Plan | |
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| Management Information Systems | |
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| Who Uses Executive Information Systems? | |
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| Value Chain Management Software | |
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| Extensible Business Reporting Language | |
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| Web 2.0 | |
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| Cloud Computing and Competitive Advantage | |
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| Mobile Computing (Wireless Technology) | |
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| Handheld Device Security and Contingency Planning | |
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| Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning | |
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| CFO's View of Information Technology: A Current Survey | |
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| Management Of Assets And Liabilities | |
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| Working Capital and Cash Management | |
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| Evaluating Working Capital | |
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| Cash Management | |
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| Cash Management Models | |
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| Banking Relationships | |
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| International Cash Management | |
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| Management of Accounts Receivable | |
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| Managing Receivables | |
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| Investment in Accounts Receivable | |
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| Inventory Management | |
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| Inventory Recording and Control | |
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| Inventory Costs | |
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| Economic Order Quantity | |
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| Reorder Point | |
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| How to Find the Optimal Safety Stock Size | |
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| ABC Inventory Control | |
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| Service Business | |
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| Management of Payables | |
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| Accounts Payable System | |
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| Managing Payables | |
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| Financing The Business | |
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| Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing | |
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| Short-Term Financing | |
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| Intermediate-Term Financing | |
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| Long-Term Financing | |
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| Types of Long-Term Debt and When Each Should Be Used | |
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| Issuance of Equity Securities | |
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| Financing Strategy | |
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| Warrants and Convertibles | |
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| Warrants | |
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| Convertible Securities | |
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| Cost of Capital and Capital Structure Decisions | |
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| Individual Costs of Capital | |
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| Weights | |
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| EBIT-EPS Approach to Capital Structure Decisions | |
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| Analysis of Corporate Cash Flows | |
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| Coverage Ratios | |
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| Capital Structure Decisions | |
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| Dividend Policy | |
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| Types of Dividend Policies | |
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| Variables to Be Considered | |
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| Financial Management of Multinational Corporations | |
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| Financial Management Essentials for MNCs | |
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| Foreign Exchange Market | |
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| Financial Strategies | |
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| Types of Foreign Exchange Exposure | |
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| Interest Rate Parity | |
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| Purchasing Power Parity | |
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| Appraising Foreign Investments | |
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| Financing | |
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| Analysis of Foreign Investments | |
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| Financial Analysis, Insurance And Legal Considerations, And Economics | |
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| Financial Statement Analysis | |
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| Financial Analysis Essentials | |
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| Balance Sheet Analysis | |
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| Potential for Business Failure | |
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| Income Statement Analysis | |
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| Market Value Ratios | |
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| Analyzing the Financial Structure of the Firm | |
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| Product Line Measures | |
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| Industry Characteristics Indicative of Greater Risk | |
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| Considerations in Foreign Operations | |
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| Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs | |
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| Control Reports | |
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| Control of Costs | |
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| Performance Measures | |
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| Business Processes | |
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| Insurance and Legal Considerations | |
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| Insurance Protection | |
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| Types of Insurance | |
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| Medical and Catastrophe Coverage | |
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| Liability Insurance Coverage for CFOs | |
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| Business Law | |
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| Reading Economic Indicators | |
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| How Can You Keep Track of the Economy with Economic and Monetary Indicators? | |
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| Housing-Related Measures | |
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| Indices of Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Economic Indicators | |
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| Other Important Economic Indices | |
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| Monetary Indicators and How They Impact the Economy | |
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| Understanding Economic Data and Indicators | |
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| Economic Indicators and Stocks and Businesses | |
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| Economic Indicators and Bond Yields | |
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| Liquidity And Treasury | |
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| Corporate Investments in Securities | |
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| Cash and Liquidity Management | |
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| Terms and Features of Bonds | |
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| Other Fixed Income Investments | |
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| Money Market Preferred Stock | |
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| Private Equity | |
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| Current Trends in Liquidity Management Strategy | |
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| Taxation | |
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| Tax Factors in Financial Decision Making | |
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| What Should You Know about Taxes? | |
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| Gross Income | |
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| Depreciation | |
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| Amortization | |
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| Tax Planning | |
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| Mergers And Acquisitions, Divestitures, Failure, And Reorganization | |
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| Mergers and Acquisitions | |
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| Valuation | |
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| Fair Market Value of Net Assets | |
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| Capitalization of Revenue | |
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| Price/Earnings Ratio | |
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| Similar Businesses | |
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| Sales of Stock | |
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| Combination of Methods | |
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| Successful Strategy for Mergers and Acquisitions | |
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| Divestiture | |
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| Why Divest? | |
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| Asset Valuation Methods | |
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| Profi tability Methods | |
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| Market-Based Comparisons | |
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| Discounted Cash Flow Analysis | |
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| Divestiture with Uncertainty | |
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| Forecasting Corporate Financial Distress | |
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| Prediction Models | |
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| Z-Score Model | |
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| Applications | |
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| Failure and Reorganization | |
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| Business Failure | |
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| Reorganization | |
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| Valuation of Bonds and Stocks | |
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| How to Value a Security | |
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| How to Value Bonds | |
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| How to Value Preferred Stock | |
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| How to Value Common Stock | |