The Fast Forward MBA in Finance

by Tracy, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780471109303
• ISBN10: 0471109304
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780471202851
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-01
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
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Summary

Numbers are the language of business. This book helps you make sense of them--fast. John Tracy is a master at pulling the meaningful figures out of the pile of numbers generated by the accounting department. Here he offers a quick review of both the basic financials as well as more advanced accounting tools, including Income statements and cash flow statements Budgeting and evaluating business investment performance Capital investment, operating ratios, benchmarking tools, and more Readers will not only understand the theory behind all of these topics but see how to apply them in real situations. JOHN A. TRACY (Boulder, Colorado) is a professor of accounting at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Statement which has sold over 100,000 copies.

Author Biography

John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting, Emeritus at the Leeds School of Business of the University of Colorado, Boulder

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR MANAGERS.

Getting Down to Business.

Income Statement for Managers.

MANAGEMENT ANALYSIS.

Operating Ratios: Indispensabile Benchmarks.

Capital Needs of Growth.

Sales Volume Changes.

Price-Volume Trade-Offs.

Cost-Volume Trafe-Offs.

Service Businesses.

MANAGEMENT CONTROL.

Manufacturing Accounting.

CAPITAL INVESTMENT.

Determining Future Returns for Captial Investment.

Discounting Future Returns from Capital Investment.

Appendices.

Index.