Key management ratios 

 - 4th 
 -  Financial Times Prentice Hall,  2008 
 - xiii, 393 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
<br/><br/> the 100+ ratios every manager needs to know 
<br/><br/>PART I   FOUNDATIONS  1 Background--  2 Financial statements--  3 Balance sheet terms--  4 Profit and loss account--  --  PART II   OPERATING PERFORMANCE--  5 Measures of performance--  6 Operating performance--  7 Performance drivers--  --  PART III   CORPORATE LIQUIDITY--  8 Cash flow cycle--  9 Liquidity--  10 Financial strength--  11Cash flow--  --  PART IV DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE VALUE--  12 Corporate valuation--  13 Financial leverage and corporate valuation--  14 Growth--  --  PART V MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING--  15 Cost, volume and price relationships--  16 Investment ratios--  17 Shareholder value added (SVA)--  18 Acquisition analysis--  19 Integrity of account statements--  --  Appendix 1: Special items--  Appendix 2: Companies used in the sample--  Appendix 3: Full set of ratio charts from sample companies--  Appendix 4: Discounting and compounding tables--  Glossary--  Index-- 
<br/><br/> Key Management Ratiosis an antidote to any fear of finance. Drawing data from 200 companies worldwide, the book brings clarity and simplicity to its explanation of every measure and shows how they all link together to drive your business. ;  ; From cash flow and profit to ROI and ROTA, its unique approach remains as classic as ever, bringing a simple and visual understanding to a complex subject. ;  ; Ciaran Walsh is Senior Specialist Finance at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin.  ; He is trained both as an economist and an accountant and had 15 years industry experience before joining the academic world. His work with senior managers over many years has enabled him to develop his own unique approach to training corporate finance. As a consequence, he has lectured in most European countries, and the Middle East.  His main research interest is to identify and computerize the links that tie corporate growth and capital structure into stock market valuation. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780273719090 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Uniform Titles: </label><br/>HF COMMERCE
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ratio analysis<br/>Management--Statistical methods<br/>Statistical decision<br/>