Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers

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Praise for Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques:

"Bona fide treasury for executives, managers, entrepreneurs. Have long used this great work in corporate & university programs. Uniquely makes the arcane clear."Allen B. Barnes, Provost, IBM Advanced Business Institute

"A candidate for every consultant-to-management's bookshelf. Its beauty lies in the dynamic model of the business system and its management decision framework."Stanley Press CMC, Book review in C2M Consulting to Management Journal

"Goes a long way to remove the mystery from business finance. Approach allows managers from all areas to understand how their decisions impact shareholder value."Stephen E. Frank, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Southern California Edison

"Helfert has rare ability to make financial concepts understandable to those lacking financial background. His finance seminars exceeded our high expectations."L. Pendleton Siegel, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Potlatch Corporation

"Commend the clarity, organization and currency of contents. There is no other book available that does the task in such an understandable and accessible way."Dr. Thomas F. Hawk, Frostburg State University

"Helfert's excellent overviews and simplified models effectively broadened our managers' understanding of their fiscal responsibility to HP and our shareholders."Robert P. Wayman, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Hewlett-Packard Company

"The book has become a classic, and Helfert has been of substantial help to my company in teaching our people how to think about the numbers which drive it."Robert J. Saldich, President and Chief Executive Officer, Raychem Corporation

"Helfert has contributed to the development of financial skills of TRW managers through his book, case studies and presentations, and highly rated instruction."Peter S. Hellman, President and Chief Operating Officer, TRW Inc.

"Helfert has the ability to make financial concepts understandable, and his credibility and content added significantly to the success of our educational effort."Giulio Agostini, Senior Vice President Finance, and Office Administration, 3M Corporation

"Helfert's writing and teaching have become a mainstay for us, and his business and strategic sense have been recognized as valuable guides to our process."William H. Clover, Ph.D., Manager of Training, and AMOCO Learning Center

Concepts and tools for making sound business decisions

Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques, a business-focused revision of Erich Helfert's perennial college bestseller Techniques of Financial Analysis, is a quick, easy read for nonfinancial managers and an excellent refresher and reference for finance professionals. This practical, hands-on guide provides a new introductory chapter that gives context to today's valuation turmoil and helps professionals understand the economic drivers of a business and the importance of cash flow.

The book's overriding theme is that any business should be viewed as a dynamic, integrated system of cash flowsone that can be activated and managed by investment decisions. Topics, discussed in clear, comprehensive, and easy-to-understand detail, include:

Increasing shareholder value through value-based management (VBM)
Interpreting pro forma financial statements

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The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis (Wiley Finance)

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A real mixed bag
Chart your way to positively impact your company's value.
Helped develop an excellent financial foundation for non-fin
A worthy effort, but ultimately too basic to be very useful.

The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis (Wiley Finance)
Stephen F. Jablonsky , and Noah P. Barsky
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"The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis opens the door for both financial and nonfinancial managers to develop a framework for understanding a company's true financial performance. The Manager's Guide goes the extra step by providing the reader with the skills necessary to communicate the impact of a firm's financial measures in a nontraditional, easy-to-understand manner. It is this combination of understanding and effective communication that allows the manager to then improve a firm through the use of financial information."-Christopher D. Flick, Investment Manager, The Vanguard Group

"The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis has helped me in both my personal (investing) and professional (management) lives. The authors unravel the complexities of financial statements so that the information they contain can be easily digested and exploited. There is no more hiding a company's strategy behind a set of financial statements. I keep this book close at hand!"-Steven I. Glusman, Chief Engineer, Comanche Helicopter Program, Boeing Rotorcraft Program Management Center

"A valuable framework for communicating firm results and aligning managers around common goals. The methodology links the information contained in a company's financial statements with its external market performance in a format that is easily understandable by the different functional managers of any company."-Scott Teeter, The LTC Group

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A real mixed bag.......2004-04-08

By "manager," the authors appear to mean "someone who is not financially literate." Although this book does a good job of explaining how to analyze financial statements, I was disappointed that it didn't really contain a practical manager's perspective. Instead, this book is just like many others -- it does a credible job from an academic perspective of explaining financial statements and their use. Don't expect to learn much about applying this to your job as a manager or as a small business professional.

Chart your way to positively impact your company's value........1999-05-19

This is an ingenious guide to understanding not only the key concepts of financial statement analyis, but also the levers at the disposal of managers which they can and should employ to proactively improve shareholder value in their firm. The charting methodology the authors have designed is not difficult, but it is nonetheless quite illustrative and well structured. I am using the book to teach a class of forty MBA students from many different countries, and I have found that each chapter fits into a one and a half hour lecture and discussion session very comfortably. From the students' feedback as well as my own background as a former Chief Financial Officer, I am certain that this book will be a valuable tool in any reader's management career.

Helped develop an excellent financial foundation for non-fin.......1999-05-14

"The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis" helped develop an excellent financial foundation for me, as a non-financial professional. Reading it wasn't about getting the math correct, it was about telling the story of a company through careful analysis of a company's financial statements. Where once I glided over dollar amounts and percentages, I now read and understand where they come from and what they represent. Since most professionals are responsible for budgets and are likely to be stakeholders in some business or another, it is imperative to have a broad based understanding of financial statement analysis, this is where The Manager's Guide fits in.

A worthy effort, but ultimately too basic to be very useful........1998-08-04

This is a basic text for those who have a limited understanding of financial statements and don't intend to learn a whole lot more. The authors provide a user-friendly visual method to relate to abstract figures. Unfortunately, the reader isn't assumed to have acquired additional command of the subject as he reads through the book. This causes the later chapters to drag since the pace hasn't picked up much from the introduction.

The book is marred by some poor technical proofreading (charts with missing data, erroneous dates, etc), but that was a minor annoyance. I was discouraged, though, by the lack of practical applicability -- don't expect to learn much about how to diagnose company problems or strengths at manager level. This book best serves as a primer for those who want to read more about how to perform useful analysis of a company.

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Great for Technical People!

How to Understand Financial Statements: A Nontechnical Guide for Financial Analysts, Managers, and Executives/Book and Disk
Kenneth R. Ferris
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Here, in one complete volume, are the strategies, guidelines, and working tools needed to assess the quality of earnings, assets and cash flows and get behind the numbers to understand what is really happening in a company. Written especially for new and intermediate-level managers and financial professionals, this easy-to-understand guide fills a significant void by taking the confusion out of GAAP so managers can understand and use todays vast array of published financial statements. This comprehensive resource covers all areas of financial analysis and virtually every type of financial analysis tool, including: - The Income Statement: Authoritative coverage of Revenue Recognition, the Cost of Operations, and Income Taxes Real and Deferred - The Balance Sheet: Techniques and strategies for analyzing Working Capital, Intercorporate Investments, Noncurrent Operating Assets, Long-term Debt, Debt Valuation, and Owners Equity - The Statement of Cash Flows: Including Cash Flow Analysis - The Quality of Reported Earnings and Assets: alternative models of financial analysis For all professionals responsible for credit and investment analysis this indispensable guide bridges the gap between simply reading and fully understanding financial statements.

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Great for Technical People!.......2000-03-26

Introduction to Financial reporting and the how to's for analytical thinkers not familiar with finance. Now required reading for my staff of engineering managers & sales people. The book gives you clear insight into what the 3 basic accounting reports are, why they exist and the world of GAP. A wonderful introduction with some depth.

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Offering accumulated observations of interviews with hundreds of job candidates, these books provide useful insights into which characteristics make a good IT professional. These handy guides each have a complete set of job interview questions and provide a practical method for accurately assessing the technical abilities of job candidates. The personality characteristics of successful IT professionals are listed and tips for identifying candidates with the right demeanor are included. Methods for evaluating academic and work histories are described as well.

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Excellent Network interview questions.......2004-08-05

This is an excellent text for any IT manager. I was impressed with the coverage for the pre-interview stages and how you can identify those job candidates that are most-likely-to-succeed in the job role.

Better still, I was impressed with the job interview questions. They are designed for a telephone interview, and the IT manager can just ask the questions and compare the responses to the "ideal" answer.

Overall, this book is a real timesaver for anyone hiring a Cisco or Ethernet Network Engineer.

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Plastics are everywhere. Bags, bank cards, bottles, and even boats can all be made of this celebrated but much-maligned material. Yet most of us know next to nothing about plastics. We do know that they are practical and cheap--but they also represent a huge environmental problem, for they literally take ages to decompose. In this engaging book, E.S. Stevens tells us everything we have always wondered about plastics and of the efforts, in America, Europe, and Asia, to develop a new breed of environmentally friendly plastics. He points to a possible future where plastics will no longer be made of petroleum, but of plants.

The first two chapters assess the increased use of plastics as a relatively new alternative to other materials. The third chapter introduces us to their impact on the environment and strategies for their disposal or recycling. The next two chapters cover basic concepts and terms used in polymer sciences and provide some basic chemistry. With these fundamentals in tow, the author compares how petroleum-based and biological polymers are made, and the various ways in which they decompose. He acquaints readers with the emerging technologies, their commercial viability, and their future. Finally, instructions are given for preparing basic bioplastics using readily available materials.

Nonspecialists will find Green Plastics a concise introduction to this exciting interdisciplinary topic--an introduction otherwise not available. For students it provides easy entry to an area of science with wide appeal and current importance; for teachers, excellent background reading for courses in various sciences. The prospect of depleted fossil fuel supplies, and the potential benefits of bioplastics to the environment and to rural areas that could supply the raw materials, make this book a compelling presentation of a subject whose time has come.

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Problems, problems, problems! All Mike Harmon ever wanted to be was a SEAL. But after problems in the teams, college student was a decent second best. However, trouble seemed to follow him where he went. Now, after having angered every terrorist on Earth and at least five governments, buying a farm in a third world country was looking pretty good. Of course, nothing was ever simple. With Chechen terrorists knocking on the door and tenant farmers with a truly Byzantine culture, the question was whether he could drag the keldara into the 21st century before the Chechen put them back in the 6th. Kildar answers the question: Where would an international security specialist and former SEAL choose to retire-if he's going to buy the farm, it should be one with beautiful women and the best beer in the world. Valhalla on Earth complete with Vikings.

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Good Read and Better than Ghost.......2007-09-04

Good Story and a bit less over the top than Ghost. I would probably recommend this book over Ghost just because it is a better read. The Sex is still there but less in your face than in the first.

If you are a Ringo fan as I am and were put off by Ghost, read this one. Remember it is still in the Mac Bolan, The Destroyer and as someone else mentioned John Carter (Except no Mars)

The Ghost decides to come out of retirement - with dangerous results........2007-09-03

John Ringo's KILDAR tells of Mike, who has always wanted to be a SEAL, but who is currently hated by every terrorist on Earth and many governments. Facing danger, the Ghost decides to come out of retirement - with dangerous results.

Seriously..........2007-08-08

None of you giving more than 1 star review can't be serious, can you? There is absolutely nothing in this mass of drivel which is even remotely compelling.

I get the fact that Ringo is into SOF fanboy fiction, with Jenkins being wealthy, an awe-inspiring warrior, and a sexual dynamo, but at least make a story out of it, Old Boy.

Firstly, Kildar is never in a difficult situation that he can't wave some money at or make a convenient phone call to solve. Isn't the first tenant of storytelling is the hero in a tight spot and has to work his way out?

Next, the dialogue is forced. Not only does Jenkins communicate with the natives in their own dialect in seemingly a matter of days with perfection, but he's using expressions that a clan of people basically out of the 15th century wouldn't even comprehend.

Additionally, there is only a smattering of action at page 440 of a 460 page book. Yep. Basically, you've just read an entire tome about a guy buying a castle, meeting the natives, financing some farming operations, setting up his personal harem, putting together the A-Team and ... nothing.

Lastly, there is not sub-plot or interesting twist. Just a linear omnipotent narration. Pretty boring really.

Edgar Rice Burroughs fantasies for adult males.......2007-07-22

My dad bought this book and I read it and generally liked the story. Ringo is entertaining. This series is sort of the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series for adult males. Meaning, in the Mars series the women were subjugated, the men, all masculine, and it appealed perfectly to the juvenile male.
This series appeals perfectly to the adult male, in general. It is the Edgar Rice Burroughs Mars series for adults because of the sex. First the book is a fantasy, Navy seal with 30 million bucks gets cooperation from the local governments and the US govt whenever he needs it; he gets a harem and then finds, very conveniently, a harem manager through a connection in another country. The female harem mgr. loves rough sex and is a fantasy woman in every way, submissive, sexually compliant and inventive, etc. The hero is able to have sex for hours at a time, the girl loves to be beaten and dominated. You get the picture.
Take all that out or minimize it and you have the same plot with a less juvenile approach to life.
I will, no doubt, be criticized for complaining about the sex, so be it, it won't be the first time. The sex and sexual content and stereotypes of women are not needed. Second, even if it were needed, the typically juvenile way that the protagonist's sex partners are portrayed are off the charts stereotypical fantasy women, playboy playmates come to life as it were to make the the fantasies they inspire come true.
The story itself is a 4, the stereotypical way the sexuality and the protagonist's sex partners are handled rate it a 1 or 2, so a total compromise score is 3.

An other good read from John Ringo.......2007-06-30

Not quite as "over the top" as the previous novel, "Ghost", but I look forward to reading the next book in this military fiction series.

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