Managerial Finance

ISBN-13: 9780750618267 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 296 str.

Alan Parkinson

Opis

Designed for NVQ or SVQ Diploma courses in management, this text covers the key topics of resource management, investment and financial decision-making. Case studies and examples also describe the practical use of financial ratios and performance indicators. The text is also suitable for managers on Diploma in Management programmes. It is designed to providing the fundamental knowledge and understanding required for any competency-based management course, and is based upon the Management Charter Initiative's Occupational Standards for Management NVQs and SVQs.

Spis treści

The flow of finance - Understanding and managing the flow of finance; Accounting for the flow of finance; The financing decision - Finding finance; Capital gearing structures; Operational gearing structures; The investment decision - Investing in the future; Quantifying the long-term investment decision; Complications in the investment decision; Cost savings, profit enhancement and ad hoc decisions; Other investment decisions - Understanding and managing the working capital decision; Business valuation; Managing through information - Understanding information; Managing through budgetary information; Using information to measure financial performance; Appendix - Glossary of accounting terms; Index.

O autorze

Alan Parkinson