Title:The Vest Pocket CFOVersion:3rd
Year: 2008
书比较长，涵盖内容比较多，基本上涵盖了所有CFO或者大企业财务经理需要用到的业务知识。

Table of Content

Part 1 Reports and Filings
One Chief Financial Officer’s Reports 3
Two Securities and Exchange Commission Filings 10

Part 2 Financial Accounting
Three Financial Statement Reporting:
Four Financial Statement Reporting: The Balance Sheet 38

Five Statement of Cash Flows 92
Six Accounting and Disclosures 105
Seven Key Financial Accounting Areas 124

Eight Interim and Segmental Reporting 185

Part 3 Management Accounting
Nine Cost Management and Analysis 197
Ten Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and
Eleven Short-Term Decisions 230
Twelve Financial Forecasting, Planning, and

Thirteen Risk Management 271
Fourteen Capital Budgeting 286
Fifteen The What and Why of Responsibility
Sixteen Control of Profit Centers 330
Seventeen Performance of Investment Centers

Eighteen How to Analyze and Improve
Nineteen Sustainable Growth Model 372


Part 4 Management of Assets and Payables
Twenty Working Capital and Cash
Twenty-one Management of Accounts Receivable 408
Twenty-two Inventory Management 421
Twenty-three Management of Payables 440
Twenty-four Short-Term and Intermediate-Term
Twenty-five Long-Term Financing 473

Twenty-six Warrants and Convertibles 504
Twenty-seven Cost of Capital and Capital Structure
Twenty-eight Dividend Policy 530
Twenty-nine FinancialManagement of


Part 6 Financial Analysis
Thirty Financial Statement Analysis 573
Thirty-one Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of
Thirty-two Insurance and Legal Considerations 626
Thirty-three Basics of Economics 637


Part 7 Investments
Thirty-four Corporate Investments in Securities 661

Part 8 Taxation
Thirty-five Tax Factors in Financial Decision
Thirty-six Mergers and Acquisitions 699

Thirty-seven Divestiture 714
Thirty-eight Forecasting Corporate Financial
Thirty-nine Failure and Reorganization 749
Forty Valuation of Bonds and Stocks 762

Forty-one Financial Statement Analysis: Key


Appendix 811
Index 821