Power in numbers : how to manage for profit
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Power in numbers : how to manage for profit
Wiley, c1987
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
Power in Numbers is the business executive's manual for improving the bottom line. Written in a simple, conversational style, this book presents the basic business accounting data and then shows how to organize and examine such so that the manager can better understand the operations of the business and make it more profitable. Examples of both successes and failures in business are included eg IBM, Osborn, DEC, 3M, along with seven case studies and corporate financial statements, including IBM. It also contains fictionalized accounts of actual small closely held companies representing such businesses as Interior Design, Software, Food Manufacturing, Restaurant, Community Newspapers and Dentistry Practice.
Table of Contents
- Accumulating Wealth: The Role of Financial Information
- Financial Statements: Some Essential Principles
- Selecting Accounting Conventions That Reduce Taxes
- The Income Statement as a Tool for Managing Operations
- The Balance Sheet as a Tool for Managing Assets and Finances
- Using Financial Ratios to Improve the Bottom Line
- Managing Cash Flow
- Budgeting for Profit: Planning and Control of Financial Success
- Pricing for Profit
- Analyzing Investment Alternatives
- Improving the Bottom Line: The Large Corporation
- Improving the Bottom Line: The Small Company
- A Few Words on Behalf of Financial Bean Counters
- Managing by the Numbers: A Summary of the Essentials
- Of Course, Business is more than Just Numbers
- Glossary
- Index.
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