Critical Financial Issues Financial Times Briefing

by Finch, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780273737131
• ISBN10: 0273737139
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-19
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

A brilliant business needs a brilliant business plan and this is the book to help you write one. It will take you step by step through the process to help you build a business plan quickly and easily and then use it to build your business. This book introduces the basic concepts of business planning, shows you a swift and smart way to prepare a business plan and reveals how to use a business plan to run your business more effectively. This book is ideal if you need a plan to show your bank manager, small investors and employees, or to use as a chart for steering your business. It contains: Step-by-step instructions on how to build your brilliant business plan from scratch. A range of model plans for very different businesses to show you brilliant business planning in action. Advice on what delights banks and investors, as well as what not to do.

Author Biography

Brian Finch has been Director of Business Development for large UK public companies, as well as co-founder and Finance Director of an SME retail business with substantial internet trading. By background an engineer and certified accountant, he has an MBA from the London Business School. He is the author of a number of self-development books, many translated around the world, including The Times Guide to How To Write a Business Plan 3^rd Edition, (Kogan Page).

Table of Contents

 

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

PART ONE In brief

 

1 The executive précis

Introduction

 

2 What is it and what do I need to know?

Introduction

Adjustments to cashflow

The clarity of cash

Liquidity

Shareholder value

The efficient market hypothesis

Why accounts don’t help in valuation

Profit improvement

Capital allocation

Financial risk

 

3 Why do it? The risks and rewards

Cashflow

Liquidity

Shareholder value

Profit improvement

Capital allocation

 

4 Who’s doing it and who has done it?

Introduction and examples

What do success and failure look like?

Identifying success

 

PART TWO In practice

How to assess the critical finance issues

 

5 How to do it – the critical finance issues

Cashflow choices

Liquidity

Shareholder value

Profit improvement

Capital allocation

Financial risk

 

6 How to measure the critical finance issues

Cashflow

Liquidity

Other indicators

Shareholder value

Profit improvement

Capital allocation

Financial risk

 

7 How to manage the critical finance issues

Cashflow management

Shareholder value

Profit improvement

Capital allocation

Financial risk

 

8 How to justify addressing the critical finance issues – the business case

Introduction

 

9 How to talk about the critical finance issues

Involving all employees

Profit improvement through collaboration

The language of capital allocation

Talking about financial risk

 

PART THREE Intervention

 

10 Executive intervention

What questions should I ask?

When is my intervention needed?

What are the make or break decisions?

What levers should I pull?

How do we know whether we’ve succeeded or failed?

 

PART FOUR In depth

 

11 Additional resources

Books

Online references

Advisers and consultants

Courses

 

Index