Description
This book offers a unique blend of academic rigour and practical insight and uses examples and illustrations drawn from a wide range of real-life situations. Mastering Financial Management will help you to tease out meaning from company accounts, make your financial reports interesting and influential, manage budgets and motivate people to achieve targets, and much more. Ideal as a text for all students requiring an introduction to financial management and for business managers with no financial background. JOHN WHITELEY is a Business Consultant, Chartered Accountant and writer, with over 30 years of experience – 28 of these in public practice, dealing with many different businesses. His is the author of 13 business books including Saving and Investing, Paying Less Tax and The Small Business Tax Guide (How to Books). Introduction.- Understanding Accounts.- Financial Reporting.- The Budgeting Process.- Controlling Working Capital.- Financial Input into Management Decisions.- Measures of Success.- Phases of Business Life.- Managing Bank Relations.- Loan Capital, Overdrafts, and Working Capital Finance.- Equity Capital.- Appendices.- Glossary.- Further Reading.- Index.
