عنوان

Practical financial management :

(Number (ISBN

0749455012

(Number (ISBN

9780749455019

Erroneous ISBN

0749452730

Erroneous ISBN

9780749452735

Number

b763911

Title Proper

Practical financial management :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

a guide to budgets, balance sheets and business finance /

First Statement of Responsibility

Colin Barrow.

Edition Statement

7th ed.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

London :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Kogan Page,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (xxv, 196 pages) :

Other Physical Details

illustrations (some color).

Series Title

Sunday Times business development series

Text of Note

Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Assembling financial data -- 1 Keeping the books -- The accounts you have to keep -- Getting some help -- 2 The cash flow statement -- Why cash is king -- The structure of the cash flow statement -- Avoiding overtrading -- Estimating start-up cash requirements -- Cash flow spreadsheet tools -- 3 The profit-and-loss account -- The difference between profit and cash -- Structuring the profit-and-loss account -- Dealing with debtors and creditors -- Handling depreciation -- Cost of goods sold -- Profit and loss for a service business -- Profit-and-loss spreadsheet tool -- 4 The balance sheet -- A personal experience -- The public picture -- The structure of the business balance sheet -- The ground rules, concepts and conventions -- Accounting for stock -- Methods of depreciation -- The capital register -- Preparing a package of accounts -- Balance sheet and other online tools -- Part 2 Understanding the figures -- 5 Funding strategies, safety and performance -- Debt vs equity -- Using your own resources -- Borrowing money -- Getting an investor -- Going public -- Free money -- 6 Using ratios -- Levels of profit -- Working capital relationships -- Return on investment (ROI) -- Market tests -- Combined ratios -- Getting company accounts -- Ratio analysis spreadsheets -- 7 Costs, volume, pricing and profit decisions -- Adding up the costs -- The components of cost -- Break-even point -- Margin of safety -- Costing to meet profit objectives -- Costing for special orders -- Real-time internet pricing strategies -- Costing for business start-up -- Costing to identify unprofitable products and services -- Getting help with break-even -- 8 Improving performance -- Pricing for profit -- Reducing costs -- Squeezing working capital -- The profit-improvement programme -- Part 3 Figuring out the future -- 9 Revenue budgets -- Budgeting for a business -- Timescale and detail -- Objectives -- Market appreciation -- Forecasting sales -- Resources appreciation -- Key strategies and operating plans -- Setting the budget -- Budget guidelines -- Monitoring performance -- Flexing the budget -- Seasonality and trends -- Cash and capital budgets -- Building a budget model -- 10 Capital budgets -- Average return on capital employed(ARCE) -- Payback period -- Discounted cash flow -- Present value -- The profitability index -- Internal rate of return -- Risk and sensitivity analysis -- Dealing with inflation -- Appraising investments -- Some general factors in investment decisions -- Online capital budgeting calculator -- 11 Preparing a business plan -- Why you need a business plan -- Contents of the plan -- Tips on communicating the plan -- Part 4 Dealing with regulatory authorities -- 12 Computing taxes -- Sole traders and partnerships -- Company taxation -- Which structure is best? -- Minimizing taxes -- Dealing with employment taxes -- Value added tax (VAT) -- Surviving a tax investigation -- Help and advice with tax matters -- Finding a low-tax country -- 13 Alternative legal structures -- Their impact on financial procedures -- Sole traders -- Partnerships and l.

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Text of Note

A guide to financial planning and control for small businesses, which covers all the principles and problems, this edition reinforces essential points through the use of questions within each section. Beginning with an introduction to the key financial statements, it moves on to look at the tools of financial analysis.

Source for Acquisition/Subscription Address

Ebook Library

Stock Number

EBL363244

Title

Practical financial management.

International Standard Book Number

0749452730

Business enterprises-- Finance.

Small business-- Finance.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Corporate Finance.

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS-- Finance.

Business enterprises-- Finance.

Small business-- Finance.

BUS-- 017000

BUS-- 027000

Number

Edition

Class number

Book number

Barrow, Colin.

Barrow, Colin.

Date of Transaction

20201204232153.0

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Electronic name

[Book]

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