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Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers
Erich A. Helfert Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071378340 |
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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:
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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.
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The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis (Wiley Finance)
Stephen F. Jablonsky , and Noah P. Barsky Manufacturer: Wiley ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0471402745 |
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Praise for The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysis"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
Chart your way to positively impact your company's value........1999-05-19
Helped develop an excellent financial foundation for non-fin.......1999-05-14
A worthy effort, but ultimately too basic to be very useful........1998-08-04
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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How to Understand Financial Statements: A Nontechnical Guide for Financial Analysts, Managers, and Executives/Book and Disk
Kenneth R. Ferris Manufacturer: CCH ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0130519138 |
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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.Customer Reviews:
Great for Technical People!.......2000-03-26
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Financial Analyst's Indispensible Pocket Guide
Ram Ramesh Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0071361561 |
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Financial Analyst’s Indispensable Pocketguide is the first reference to give the more than 20,000 candidates who take AIMR-administered CFA exams annually—and the 60,000-plus CFAs and finance professionals who currently practice investment management—a single broad-based resource for specific terminology and information. Much more than just a dictionary, this dynamic book explains and expands upon the fundamental concepts that comprise a financial analyst’s lexicon.Within each section, Ramesh arranges fundamental terms alphabetically, then provides CFA-related tips and profiles of industry leaders. Key topics include:Customer Reviews:
I recommend !.......2007-05-14
Useful overview, but not perfect.......2001-06-14
What impressed me most about the book was how short and terse the definitions were. Clearly they are useful and present good insight into what's important and why.
What impressed me least was the lack of mathematical rigour (perhaps one can't have both brievity and exactness?). For example, many of the formulas only work for specific instances, and details about yield/rate conventions are omitted.
Overall, it struck me as useful overview and quick reminder to financial analysis and the language/terms used. It's not really indispensable, and is not authoritative. But for a quick refresher, or ballpark estimates it's fine.
A great book for those studying or who've completed the CFA.......2001-05-13
That being the case, candidates of, as well as those who have completed, the CFA program would find this book a useful one-stop guide to all those concepts, terms and designations learnt in the pursuit of the CFA designation.
The book is arranged broadly around the various topics of the CFA program i.e. Quantitative Methods, Economics, Financial Statements Analysis, Equities, Fixed Income, Derivatives, Real Estate, Portfolio Management, Ethics, Behavioural Finance. As such, the CFA candidate would find this book more useful than say, a general finance/business masters student.
But I reckon that this book, though published as recent as this year, is already in need of an update. The CFA syllabus is constantly evolving. As a result, a number of concepts in say, Level 1 of the CFA Program, are not found in this book. Also, a number of the textbooks used in the CFA program which the author had based his book on, have either been superseded by newer editions or replaced all together.
All in all, I found this to be a useful book and a unique concept. Until a better book comes along, I will be using this book religiously to prepare for the CFA exams as well as to refresh my memory.
Good starting point.......2001-04-02
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Financial accounting and statement analysis: A manager's guide
Almand R Coleman Manufacturer: R.F. Dame ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0936328215 |
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The Manager's Guide to Financial Statement Analysi S, Second Edition
Jablonsky Manufacturer: John Wiley & Sons Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: 0471013641 |
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Operational Risk: Regulation, Analysis and Management
Carol Alexander Manufacturer: Financial Times Prentice Hall ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0273659669 |
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Developments in IT and e-commerce, large-scale mergers and acquisitions, andincreased outsourcing all suggest that operational risk exposures are substantialand growing. In recent years, bankers and financial professions have recognizedthe crucial and growing importance of operational risk management, and thefield is currently undergoing a surge of innovation and development. In thisauthoritative, up-to-date book, Operational Risk, leading operational riskmanagement expert Carol Alexander brings together contributions from theworld's leading experts to identify today's best practices for measuring andmanaging operational risks, and assessing them in the broader context of allrisk.
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From Basel 1 to Basel 3: The Integration of State of the Art Risk Modelling in Banking Regulation (Finance and Capital Markets)
Laurent Balthazar Manufacturer: Palgrave Macmillan ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1403948887 Release Date: 2006-11-14 |
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The book covers topics related to banking regulation and credit risk modelling. The proposed rules are presented and key issues regarding implementation of the accord identified. The model used to calibrate the capital requirements under Basel 2 is analyzed and projected forward to present what could be key new elements in the future Basel 3 regulation. A CD-ROM is included to illustrate regulator models.
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Global Risk Based Capital Regulations: Capital Adequacy (Global Risk-Based Capital Regulations)
Charles A. Stone , and Anne Zissu Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 155623791X |
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Global Risk Based Capital Regulations: Management and Funding Strategies (Global Risk-Based Capital Regulations)
Charles A. Stone , and Anne Zissu Manufacturer: Irwin Professional Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1556237898 |
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Information Quality Assurance and Internal Control for Management Decision Making
William R Kinney Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill/Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0256221618 |
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This new text reflects Bill Kinney's experience on the special committee of assurance services, The Elliot Committee. The book is not designed to train students to be auditors. Instead, it has a strategic orientation and is intended for future managers, bankers, investment bankers, analysts, investors, IT consultants, and practicing CPAs. It is unique in that it builds upon related courses in finance, strategy, operations management, information technology, and financial and managerial accounting. There are two broad objectives of the book: 1. To introduce business students to the use of auditors and internal control to run a business better by lowering the costs of capital, production and distribution. 2. To assist accounting students by integrating their knowledge of financial and managerial accounting, information technology, and business strategy with the role of professional assurers.
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Regulation and Banks' Behaviour Towards Risk
Daniela Di Cagno Manufacturer: Dartmouth Pub Co ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 1855210819 |
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Risk Management and Regulation in Banking
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0792384830 |
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Over the last fifty years, increasingly sophisticated risk measurement and management techniques have revolutionized the field of finance. More recently, the globalization of financial markets and policy changes in the regulation of financial institutions have impacted upon how commercial banks manage risk. The widespread implications of these fundamental changes prompted an international conference held in May, 1997, devoted to the topic of risk management and regulation in banking. This book contains the formal papers and the panel discussions that comprise the conference proceedings, and thus collects some of the latest research on managing financial market risk by top scholars, policymakers, and high-ranking banking officials from around the world.
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ACLI meets banker group; agents express concerns. (meeting of American Council of Life Insurance with American Bankers Association): An article from: National ... & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00093H2AE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on January 16, 1995. The length of the article is 700 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Administration vows appeal of lender liability decision. (invalidating Environmental Protection Agency regulation): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Steven Brostoff Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008Z07KA Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on April 4, 1994. The length of the article is 510 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Agent Deal Rejected In Senate Vote On Bank Bill.(Brief Article): An article from: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management
Steven Brostoff Manufacturer: The National Underwriter Company ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00098MN0S Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on March 8, 1999. The length of the article is 519 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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