The Finance Book: Understand the numbers even if you're not a finance professional
by Stuart Warner  (Author), Si Hussain  (Author)

About the Author
Stuart Warner is a Chartered Accountant, author, non-executive adviser and trainer, with over two decades of experience in finance.  He is a director of Financial Fluency Ltd and delivers finance based training programmes around the world to both finance and non finance professionals. Over his career, Stuart has taught thousands of trainee accountants to pass their professional exams for six different professional accounting qualifications. He has helped thousands of qualified accountants keep up to date and meet their CPD qualifications as well as training many people from non-finance backgrounds to understand financial matters.
Si Hussain is an experienced CEO. Over the past decade, Si has held chief executive and senior management roles in several listed national and multinational businesses. Si qualified in 1991 as a chartered accountant.

About this book
The Finance Book has been officially shortlisted in the 'Practical Manager' category for the 2018 Management Book of the Year prize which has just been announced by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library.
The Finance Book will help you think and manage like a financial strategist. Written specifically for non-finance professionals, it will give you all you need to know to manage your business more effectively and think more strategically.
It will help you to:

• Have the confidence to read and interpret financial statements
• Ask the right questions about financial performance
• Apply important financial tools and ratios
• Learn how to think financially and make better strategic financial decisions
  

Covering business finance, accounting fundamentals, budgeting, profitability and cash management, you'll find the tools you need in order to make the best financial decisions for your business.

Brief contents
Introduction
Part 1 Finance fundamentals
    1 Finance personnel and systems
    2 Cash versus accruals accounting
Part 2 Primary financial statements
    3 Profit and loss (P&L)
    4 The balance sheet
    5 Cash flow statement
Part 3 Key elements of financial statements
    6 Revenue recognition
    7 Opex and capex
    8 Business tax
    9 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
    10 Goodwill and other intangibles
    11 Stock
    12 Debtors and creditors
    13 Prepayments and accruals
    14 Provisions and contingencies
    15 Capital and reserves
    16 Group accounting
    17 Revaluation
    18 Impairment
Part 4 Financial and regulatory environment
    19 Accounting and financial reporting standards
    20 External financial audit
    21 Information in the public domain
    22 Corporate governance and whistleblowing
Part 5 Assessing financial health
    23 Profitability performance measures
    24 Working capital and liquidity management
    25 Insolvency and going concern risk
    26 Long-term solvency performance measures
    27 Investor ratios
    28 Business valuation
Part 6 Sources of business finance
    29 Equity finance
    30 Debt finance
Part 7 Financial management
    31 Management accounts
    32 Profitable pricing
    33 Profit planning
    34 Budgeting and forecasting
    35 Investment appraisal
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Appendix: Greggs 2015 Accounts
Glossary
Further resources
Index

Series: Financial Times
Pages: 360 pages
Publisher: FT Press; 1 edition (May 4, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1292123648
ISBN-13: 978-1292123646

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