The Vest Pocket Controller

by Bragg, Steven M.

• ISBN13: 9780470593738
• ISBN10: 0470593733
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The Vest Pocket Controller is a handy pocket problem-solver for today's busy controller, CFO, and other financial professionals. It is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's financial managers and executives. It is written in an easy Q & A format and includes checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of problems facing today's controller. The book covers virtually all areas of importance that a controller must be aware of--topics to be covered are: accounting standards, control systems, financial analysis, and reporting systems.

Author Biography

Steven M. Bragg, CPA, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young and auditor at Deloitte. He is the author of over thirty books primarily targeted toward controllers and their needs. Bragg received a master's degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Maine.

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Author

Accounting Standards

One Revenue Recognition

Two Investment Accounting

Three Inventory Accounting

Four Fixed Asset Accounting

Five Debt Accounting

Six Stockholders' Equity

Seven Lease Accounting

Eight Foreign Currency Accounting

Accounting Management

Nine Closing the Books

Ten Cash Management

Eleven Receivables Management

Twelve Inventory Management

Thirteen Debt Management

Fourteen Equity Registration

Financial Analysis

Fifteen Financial Analysis

Sixteen Pricing Analysis

Seventeen Cost Reduction Analysis

Eighteen Metrics

Control Systems

Nineteen Budgeting

Twenty Capital Budgeting

Twenty-One Control Systems

Public Company Accounting

Twenty-Two SEC Filings

Twenty-Three Public Company Accounting Topics

Index

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