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Record Nr.

UNISA996339090703316

Autore

Barrow Colin

Titolo

Practical financial management : a guide to budgets, balance sheets and business finance / / Colin Barrow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Kogan Page, 2008

London, U.K. : , : Kogan Page, , 2008

ISBN

9780746455019

1-281-77614-9

9786611776145

0-7494-5501-2

Edizione

[7th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Sunday Times business development series

Altri autori (Persone)

BarrowColin

Disciplina

658.15

Soggetti

Small business - Finance

Business enterprises - Finance

Budget in business

Business planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Part 1 Assembling financial data; 1 Keeping the books; 2 The cash flow statement; 3 The profit-and-loss account; 4 The balance sheet; Part 2 Understanding the figures; 5 Funding strategies,safety and performance; 6 Using ratios; 7 Costs, volume, pricing and profit decisions; 8 Improving performance; Part 3 Figuring out the future; 9 Revenue budgets; 10 Capital budgets; 11 Preparing a business plan; Part 4 Dealing with regulatory authorities; 12 Computing taxes; 13 Alternative legal structures; 14 Directors' roles and responsibilities; Index; Index of advertisers;

Sommario/riassunto

Practical Financial Management is intended to help those who find business finance confusing. Now in its seventh edition, it continues to provide advice on proper financial planning and control, and reinforces essential points through the use of questions within each section. Beginning with an introduction to the key financial statements, it moves on to look at the tools of financial analysis – the keys to controlling a business successfully. The final part of the book deals with business



planning and budgeting, a vital area of business finance as most new ventures cannot get off the ground wi