Financial times briefing on critical financial issues / / Brian Finch

• Autore: Finch Brian
• Pubblicazione: Harlow, England : , : Financial Times Prentice Hall, is an imprint of Pearson, , 2011
• Edizione: 1st edition
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (177 pages) : color illustrations
• Disciplina: 658.15
• Soggetto topico: Business enterprises - Finance; Corporations - Finance
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 158-160) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 general management position it’s important to understand the critical financial issues that affect their business unit. This book will give you an understanding of these financial issues so you can understand the impact they will have on your operational decisions, as well as be able to recognise when they are taking risks and how to evaluate those risks. Structured in the series format of the Financial Times Briefing series, concise, pithy and to the point, these books offer: o Powerful, practical advice to help executives make essential business decisions. o A concise and focused overview to give executives the crucial information they need. o Special design to help busy business leaders get the knowledge they need, fast.
• Altri titoli varianti: Critical financial issues
• Titolo autorizzato: Financial times briefing on critical financial issues
• ISBN: 1-283-05607-0; 9786613056078; 0-273-73714-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910150238503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Financial Times briefings.