The Vest Pocket CFO, 3rd Edition

by Jae K. Shim (California State University); Joel G. Siegel (Queens College, City University of New York)

• ISBN13: 9780470302262
• ISBN10: 0470302267
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

The thorough reference that goes wherever you goThe Vest Pocket CFO is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy Q&A format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.

Table of Contents

Reports and Filings

Chief Financial Officer's Reports

Securities and Exchange

Commission Filings

Financial Accounting

Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement

Financial Statement Reporting:

The Balance Sheet

The Statement of Cash Flows

Accounting and Disclosures

Key Financial Accounting Areas

Interim and Segmental Reporting

Management Accounting

Cost Management and Analysis

Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Leverage

Short-Term Decisions

Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting

Risk Management

Capital Budgeting

What and Why of Responsibility Accounting

Control of Profit Centers

Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing

How To Analyze And Improve Corporate Profitability And Shareholder Value

Sustainable Growth Model

Management of Assets and Payables

Working Capital and Cash Management

Management of Accounts Receivable

Inventory Management

Management of Payables

Financing the Business

Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing

Long-Term Financing

Warrants And Convertibles

Cost of Capital and Capital

Dividend Policy

Financial Management Of Multinational Corporations

Financial Analysis

Financial Statement Analysis

Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs

Insurance and Legal Considerations

Basics of Economics

Investments

Corporate Investments In Securities

Taxation

Tax Factors In Financial

Decision Making

Mergers, Divestitures, Failure, And Reorganization

Mergers And Acquisitions

Divestiture

Forecasting Corporate Financial

Failure and Reorganization

Appendix

Index

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