Fast-Forward MBA in Finance

Fast-Forward MBA in Finance


Fast-Forward MBA in Finance


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The author is well-renowned and highly successful. Figures and examples are revised and spreadsheet ready templates are provided. This book offers quick tips and cutting-edge ideas. It is totally revised new edition of a highly successful book.
Even Einstein might have had a hard time making sense of the numbers that come out of the typical accounting department. These critical financial figures of a business should be presented in rational?decision-friendly accounting reports to managers. Unfortunately?accounting reports generally fall short of this mark. Thatˇs why managers rely on John Tracy and The Fast Forward MBA in Finance to help them understand all the accounting and financial information so critical to making sound business decisions.
Tracy explores the natural starting point for managers - the financial statements - and reveals the essential meaning of each. The financial statement framework is then expanded and modified for the decision-making functions of business managers. Practical examples illustrate how to use management models for analyzing profit?cash flow?and capital investment?all of which are clearly explained with a tight focus on the information needs of individual managers.
Author Bio
JOHN A. TRACY is Professor of Accounting?Emeritus at the Leeds School of Business of the University of Colorado?Boulder. He has served as a staff accountant at Ernst & Young and is the author of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Report and Accounting for Dummies?both available from Wiley.
Table of Contents
PREFACE.
PART 1: FINANCIAL REPORTING OUTSIDE AND INSIDE A BUSINESS.
CHAPTER 1--GETTING DOWN TO BUSINESS.
Accounting Inside and Out.
Internal Functions of Accounting.
External Functions of Accounting.
A Word about Accounting Methods.
End Point.
CHAPTER 2--INTRODUCING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
Three Financial Imperatives?Three Financial Statements.
Accrual--Basis Accounting.
The Income Statement.
The Balance Sheet.
The Statement of Cash Flows.
End Point.
CHAPTER 3--REPORTING PROFIT TO MANAGERS.
Using the External Income Statement for Decision--Making Analysis.
Management Profit Report.
Contribution Margin Analysis.
End Point.
CHAPTER 4--INTERPRETING FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
A Few Observations and Cautions.
Premises and Principles of Financial Statements.
Limits of Discussion.
Profit Ratios.
Book Value Per Share.
Earnings Per Share.
Market Value Ratios.
Debt--Paying--Ability Ratios.
Asset Turnover Ratios.
End Point.
PART 2: ASSETS AND SOURCES OF CAPITAL.
CHAPTER 5--BUILDING A BALANCE SHEET.
Sizing Up Total Assets.
Assets and Sources of Capital for Assets.
Connecting Sales Revenue and Expenses with Operating Assets and Liabilities.
Balance Sheet Tethered with Income Statement.
End Point.
CHAPTER 6--BUSINESS CAPITAL SOURCES.
Business Example for This Chapter.
Capital Structure of Business.
Return on Investment.
Pivotal Role of Income Tax.
Return on Equity (ROE).
Financial Leverage.
End Point.
CHAPTER 7--CAPITAL NEEDS OF GROWTH.
Profit Growth Plan.
Planning Assets and Capital Growth.
End Point.
PART 3: PROFIT AND CASH FLOW ANALYSIS.
CHAPTER 8--BREAKING EVEN AND MAKING PROFIT.
Adding Information in the Management Profit Report.
Fixed Operating Expenses.
Depreciation: A Special Kind of Fixed Cost.
Interest Expense.
Pathways to Profit.
End Point.
CHAPTER 9--SALES VOLUME CHANGES.
Three Ways of Making a $1 Million Profit.
Selling More Units.
Sales Volume Slippage.
Fixed Costs and Sales Volume Changes.
End Point.
CHAPTER 10--SALES PRICE AND COST CHANGES.
Sales Price Changes.
When Sales Prices Head South.
Changes in Product Cost and Operating Expenses.
End Point.
CHAPTER 11--PRICE/VOLUME TRADE--OFFS.
Shaving Sales Prices to Boost Sales Volume.
Volume Needed to Offset Sales Price Cut.
Thinking in Reverse: Giving Up Sales Volume for Higher Sales Prices.
End Point.
CHAPTER 12--COST/VOLUME TRADE--OFFS AND SURVIVAL ANALYSIS.
Product Cost Increases: Which Kind?
Variable Cost Increases and Sales Volume.
Better Product and Service Permitting Higher Sales Price.
Lower Costs: The Good and Bad.
Subtle and Not--So--Subtle Changes in Fixed Costs.
Survival Analysis.
End Point.
CHAPTER 13--PROFIT GUSHES: CASH FLOW TRICKLES?
Lessons from Chapter 2.
Cash Flow from Boosting Sales Volumes.
Cash Flows across Different Product Lines.
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