Machine generated contents note: PART ONE UNDERSTANDING THE NUMBERS 1 -- 1. Using Financial Statements 3 -- John Leslie Livingstone -- 2. Analyzing BusinessEarnings 35 -- Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W Mulford -- 3. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis 102 -- William C. Lawler -- 4. Activity-Based Costing 126 -- William C. Lawler -- 5. Information Technology and You 149 -- Edward G. Cale Jr. -- 6. Forecasts and Budgets 173 -- Robert Halsey -- 7. Measuring Productivity 199 -- Michael F. van Breda -- PART TWO PLANNING AND FORECASTING 223 -- 8. Choosing a Business Form 225 -- Richard P. Mandel -- 9. The Business Plan 260 -- Andrew Zacharakis -- 10. Planning Capital Expenditure 291 -- Steven P Feinstein -- 11. Taxes and Business Decisions 314 -- Richard P. Mandel -- 12. Global Finance 353 -- Eugene E. Comiskey and Charles W Mulford -- 13. Financial Management of Risks 423 -- Steven P Feinstein -- PART THREE MAKING KEY -- STRATEGIC DECISIONS 457 -- 14. Going Public 459 -- Stephen M. Honig -- 15. The Board of Directors 510 -- Charles A. Anderson and Robert N. Anthony -- 16. Information Technology and the Firm 536 -- Theodore Grossman -- 17. Profitable Growth by Acquisition 561 -- Richard T. Bliss -- 18. Business Valuation 593 -- Michael A. Crain.