Book Description
As a busy business manager, would you like to spend less time budgeting, and learn more from the budgeting you do? If you answer yes, then Budgeting à la Carte is the book for you.
Most books on budgeting advocate a comprehensive, "seven course dinner" budgeting system. But unless you're the CEO of a major corporation, this is too much informationâmaybe way too much. What you need instead is Budgeting à la Carte: a menu of budgeting options that allows you to pick and choose only those items that suit your taste, appetite, and business situation.
Explained in detail by bestselling financial author John A. Tracy, this comprehensive resource covers the full range of budgeting procedures, including:
- Income Statements
- Balance Sheets
- Operating Ratios
- Profitability
- Cash Flow
- Price and Volume Tradeoffs
- Cost Allocations
- Capital Investments
- And more . . .
Budgeting, Tracy shows, is not an end in itself. It's a set of tools you can use to maximize financial performance and position. With Budgeting à la Carte, you'll control the tools, and you can decide just how much and what kind of budgeting is right for your business.
Also by John A. Tracy
HOW TO READ A FINANCIAL REPORT For MANAGERS, ENTREPRENEURS, LENDERS, LAWYERS, AND INVESTORS
"[If] you would like to have a minimal understanding of the numbers that make up a balance sheet, income, and cash flow statement . . . then How to Read a Financial Report might be just what you are looking for. Mr. Tracy's book explains in plain English the meaning of the major terms used in financial statements . . ."âThe Wall Street Journal
Customer Reviews:
A useful book on management accounting.......2002-05-09
A concise yet very informative book for managers interested in running a business 'by the numbers'. It is written in a very practical and easy-to-understand manner. I utilize many of Tracy's ideas in my own job. The book deals not only with budgeting but with management reporting, break-even analysis, project anlysis, and accounting issues in both service and manufacturing enviroments.
Book Description
Outside of the accounting and finance departments, not many business people are interested in the finer points of financial reports. But every manager must have a thorough understanding of what their finance and accounting staffs do, why they do it, and what these reports really mean.
This indispensable book demystifies the role that accounting and finance play in a corporation and demonstrates how financial decisions are manifestations of company goals. The author's crystal-clear examples show how managers can connect corporate financial information directly to their own strategies and actions. To demonstrate these connections, the author covers such essential topics as:
* Balance sheets and income/cash flow statements * Reading and understanding annual reports * Fixed-cost and variable-cost issues * Financial analysis, budgeting and forecasting.
Customer Reviews:
If you want a basic intro ..........2007-05-02
If you are looking for a book to introduce you to the basics of business including the jargon behind the numbers and where all the formulas come from before you plow into a true "finance and accounting text," search for "Business Basics Bestseller 1" and add it to your consideration. If you have never had this stuff 'splained' to you before, you will like it. This is not a suggestion that you substitute it for this text, just that you check it out as well.
The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers.......2005-09-15
Book was well written and speaks directly to someone who has never worked with the finances of a corporation.
How to understand the basics of a balance sheet.......2002-08-08
Edward Fields' Essentials Of Finance And Accounting For Nonfinancial Managers tells how to understand the basics of a balance sheet, income statement, cash flow statement and annual reports. Newcomers to reading company financials will appreciate the clear explanations on investment returns, analysis ratios, and other methods of understanding business reports.
Product Description
For all entrepreneurs and nonfinancial professionals with budget and/or P&L responsibilities, Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers provides the basics necessary to make a solid contribution to the financial goals and success of their companies. This indispensible and easy-to-read primer gives all entrepreneurs and managers in nonfinancial areas--sales, marketing, production, and more--a complete understanding of financial terms, statements, and ratios and how they affect the operations of a business or corporation. With this information, financial managers will be able to understand: owners' equity, ratio analysis; balance sheets; income statements; LIFO liquidations; asset valuation; cash flow statements; capital leasing; liabilities; present value; operating leverage; breakeven analysis; and more. New to the third edition are chapters covering: basic tax concepts; capital structure; business plans; working capital management and banking relationships; personal finances; and accountability and controls. This edition also comes with a CD-ROM with interactive Excel templates that lets managers immediately apply the concepts and techniques covered.
Customer Reviews:
Before you get into real F&A, do you want a simple intro?.......2007-05-02
Business Basics Bestseller 1: The Easy, Interesting, Open-book Look at the Game of Business Numbers! 2nd Edition
If you never had this finance and accounting (F&A) stuff explained to you before, you will like "Business Basics Bestseller 1" as a basic starting point. This is not a suggestion that you substitute it for this book, just that you check it out as well. The BBB #1 book was written by a guy who is not an accountant -- imagine what that can do for cutting through the jargon accountants love without even knowing it.
BBB #1 will introduce you to the basics of business including the terms behind the numbers and where all the formulas come from before you plow into a true "finance and accounting" text. Search for "Business Basics Bestseller 1" and add it to your consideration. It can be one of your best investments. At less than 150 pages, you can zip through it. This is a beginner's book for those wanting to know such provocative things as "Where do income statements come from?" and "Are balance sheets the dirty laundry of accounting?"
Best book on the subject.......2003-01-23
I consistently buy this book to distribute to participants in my company's credit training seminars. I have used the previous edition and this newest edition, both of which are very informative and easy to read. To the author... Great Job!
Filled some gaps for me.......2002-08-04
Though rudimentary, this book filled some gaps for me left by more advanced texts, including some definitions that I was fuzzy on, and enlightened me as to why some things are on financial statements in the form they're in, since I don't have a business education background.
The CD contains the text, which is handy on a laptop, but marred by having the text superimposed on a busy patterned background that has some kind of periodic highlights that are particularly annoying (the current generation of magazine, book and web site designers can't seem to grasp that the point of text is to be read, and that stuff that looks nifty on the computer screen may be darn near impossible to read in print; busy photo backgrounds, light text on dark backgrounds etc. belong ONLY in ads, where no one is expected to read the text anyway.)
Also, the spreadsheets would have been more useful if incorporated in groups into workbooks instead of individual ones. You can't readily get numbers from one to another. And the disk titles are of the "sheet23.xls" variety, not helpful for finding the one you want, so you have to either have the book listing handy or access them strictly from the CD PDF file text.
Being used to technical book web sites that contain errata, new material, suggestions from users, etc., I was disappointed to find nothing new there. And the list of web links, as usual in this fast-changing world, contains a number of missing links. I would have appreciated a good old fashioned bibliography in addition to the links, because you can usually find out of print books through a library, used dealers on the web, and most really important books and texts have current editions.
Please Note.......2002-05-24
I am the author. I would like to point out that the reviews that appear here, which are dated prior to May 2002, are for the previous edition. In this new Third Edition, I have worked hard to take this top-selling, clearly written book, and add content in many areas to provide more depth to the book. There are six new chapters covering tax concepts, capital structure, business plans, working capital and banking relationshsips, accountability and control, and personal finances. In addition many other chapters have been siginficantly modified and or supplemented with new information. I hope you enjoy my book.
Good general introduction to F&A.......2001-07-13
If you want a very basic introduction into the world of finance and accounting, this book may be for you. I was a little disappointed at the lack of depth, though.
Book Description
PROFITS ARE AN OPINION, BUT CASH IS A FACT.
Understanding CASH FLOW
If the term "cash flow" has always remained uncomfortably vague in your mind, Understanding Cash Flow will give you, quickly and simply, a firm grasp of this crucial index of a company's health and direction. It covers, in detail, the process, the terminology, and the internal and external players in the flow of cash through a company. You'll learn:
- The fundamentals of cash management and how it affects the quality of a company's earnings
- How to read cash flow statements
- How cash balances are analyzed and monitoredâincluding internal controls over cash receipts and disbursements, plus bank account reconciliation and activity analysis
- How to avoid the pitfalls of granting creditâevaluating customer credit, sources of credit information, and overall credit policy
- How to prevent fraud and waste
- And much more!
Understanding Cash Flow is a part of the new Wiley series, Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managersâdesigned to serve managers, owners, investors, students and others by explaining clearly and concisely what they need to know about important areas of cash flow management. Other titles in the series will cover income statements, return on investment, budgeting, and balance sheets.
Customer Reviews:
Pay attention to your cash flow!.......2007-04-04
We sure know how to spend, don't we? But how many of you focus on where your money goes and how best to manage it? To excel at money management you must understand the fundamentals of cash flow. This book makes it easy to learn the business of cash flow. Large print. Plenty of pictures and diagrams. You'll feel like a genius after reading this book. Buy it now.
Book Description
The definitive guide to the principles of finance and accounting--revised and updated and including access to interactive worksheets online.
Mastering the fundamentals of financial management is a must for those with a stake in their company's and their own professional future. Packed with step-by-step examples and illustrative case studies, and fully updated to reflect the latest changes in tax laws and accounting requirements, Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers is one-stop shopping for managers, entrepreneurs, seasoned executives, teachers, and students alike.
Reading a balance sheet
Mastering the accounting cycle
Making long-term investment decisions
Conducting breakeven analysis for profit planning
Calculating cost of capital
Evaluating closely held companies
Customer Reviews:
A Bit Too Theoretical.......2002-09-24
This is not a bad book. It covers a lot of ground. But at times it gets a bit too theoretical, rather than being down to earth. I saw the reviews that liked it, but several of them were by financial managers. For those of us who are not financial managers, there is quite of a bit of mathematics and theory. For example, for capital budgeting there is a whole chapter of mathematical formulas with a small paragraph saying no one really uses the formulas - they use calculators or computers. But there was no discussion about what calculator or computer program to buy or how to do the calculations with a calculator or computer. The book is also pretty much out of date, espeically in areas like the tax chapter.
Easy to read and understand for the non-technical person.......2001-12-16
This book does a great job of helping managers understand the financial world. It takes the basics of finance and accounting and describes them in a very non-technical and easy to understand manner. I am a degreed accountant with a strong finance and economics background and find it difficult to explain things to business owners and managers in a way that makes sense to them. This book resolves that problem. By the time they read through it once we can at least talk together and I don't feel like I am using a foreign language.
A very valuable book that should be required reading for anyone who goes into business for theirself or moves up the corporate ladder to a position where understanding these things is beneficial for their career. While it is not a treatise on the details of accounting and finance it will give you a broad enough scope to understand what you should be doing and why things work the way that they do. A recommended read.
Great book when paired with another one........2001-06-15
This is a very readable book about business finance and accounting. I have used it, along with a study guide I prepared for it, to help train people who were becoming instructors for business training classes. It certainly helps to be able to discuss the material in the book with someone who knows more about what's in it than you do. Even so, Droms does a good job with his material and you can use the book for later reference -- I do. You'll get even more out of this book if you order another book to go with it. That book is "Business Basics Bestseller #1." [...]
Great for project managers.......2000-06-16
It is concise and easy to understand. Helps you understand basic accounting and business finance without having a background in accounting.
A fine overview for nontechnical managers........1999-07-07
Professor Droms has re-edited his well known book: FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING FOR NONFINANCIAL MANAGERS. I, for one, am very glad to see that it continues in print and available.
This book provides remarkable insights into why things financial are the way that they are. His examples are clear and understandable. His explanations are coherent and make sense.
Perhaps, the only critique I can make for this useful and easier to follow book, is that it is too short.
Henry H. Goldman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Business Administration TOURO UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL
Book Description
Written for the beginner, this concise guide maps out the accounting cycle: balance sheets, income statements, ledger transactions, trial balances, and closing entries. Ideal for small or new businesses, this book explains single-entry and double-entry accounting and cash versus accrual accounting.
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You're 36 hours away from mastering finance... Expense reports... balance sheets... budgets... financial statements... are you one of the myriad managers and entrepreneurs who dread trying to decipher-or, worse, prepare-baffling documents like these? To the rescue comes The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers-an easy, self-paced course that demystifies everything from accounts receivable to zero-based budgeting. In just 36 painless hours financial expert Robert A Cooke shows you how to: read balance sheets and evaluate financial reports; keep tabs on sales and track expenses; put a budget together-and administer it; justify equipment costs and compute depreciation; analyze most any firm's income, earning, cash flow, and other vital statements.|You're 36 hours away from mastering finance- Expense reports-balance sheets-budgets-financial statements-are you one of the myriad managers and entrepreneurs who dread trying to decipher-or, worse, prepare-baffling documents like these? To the resuce comes The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers-an easy, self-paced course that demystifies everything from accounts receivable to zero-based budgeting. In just 36 painless hours financial expert Robert A. Cooke shows you how to: read balance sheets and evaluate financial reports; keep tabs on sales and track expenses; put a budget together-and administer it. justify equipment costs and computer depreciation; analyze most any firm's income, earnings, cash flow, and other vital statements.
Customer Reviews:
Perfect for small business owners.......2007-05-18
What a great book! It's easy to read, funny and it does a great job of explaining, piece by piece, the aspects of finance and it's interaction with a small business. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who owns a business, is thinking of owning a business or just wants to better understand what the finance world looks like from the outside.
It takes a black-box perspective on the subject to avoid dragging the reader into all the minute details while still giving the reader plenty to chew on, like COGS, depreciation, lease vs. buy decisions, and inventory valuation. The intent of this book is not to teach the reader to be an accountant but rather a book to teach the businessperson how to better use accounting as a tool so they can be more effective.
And I *love* to use of the example small business of Rosie's Spouse Houses to tie each accounting concept directly to specific "real-world" situations. The great use of humor really helps break up what can be a relatively unpalatable topic.
The only place this book falls a little short (but for good reason - it's already a long book!) is on financial statement analysis. For that, I'd recommend the book "How To Read a Financial Report" by John A. Tracy.
I have (and will continue) to recommend this book to my friends who own small businesses.
Breathes life and energy into a potentially dry subject........2003-02-13
This book starts teaching before chapter one even gets under way by setting the expectation that you really can learn (and better, apply) finance no matter what you're trying to do.
The sample situation that follows all the way through the book really helps focus on the concepts being taught. Some of the examples are humorous and some make you want to share what you're reading with a loved one.
I bought this book because I'm just starting to deal with the budget aspects of network management, and needed to figure out how to lay out what I want to do technically to non-technical folks who have the company checkbook. I already know what I want to do, how much it will cost - demonstrating benefits and describing it in language the "C" team - CEO, CFO - speaks really helps.
One of the best discoveries for me while reading this book is that in addition to helping me achieve the goal above, I found the concepts are applicable to budgeting for the home as well.
It's definitely worth a read!
Finance made easy.......2002-06-12
I'd definately recommend this book to anyone who feels phased by finance. Either as a refresher course to revamp finance skills long gone or for newcomers to the subject. The material is very relevant and extremely readable which makes an otherwise droll subject quite lively and interesting. I would have given this book 5 stars but being the pedantic reader that I am, I discovered that some of the calculations were actually inaccurate and, even worse, the answers to the review questions were wrong too. This doesn't help when you're not a natural number cruncher and need solid accuracy to assist in the learning process. Needless to say, its still a fundamentally good book and I know I'll be referring to it over again to make sure the basic concepts stick.
I'd give it six stars if I could! Fun To Read.......2002-03-13
OK. You're reading about this book because some brilliant mind at your company decided you should head up the financial decision-making department of your company. Never mind that you majored in Italian and never studied finance! Or, you are new to business and want to start your own company, and you know you need to know a bit about bookkeeping and financial management. Congratulations! You've found the right book.
"The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance For Nonfinancial Managers" is a great little book. Every small business owner who hasn't formally studied finance should read it.
Robert A. Cooke covers it all-- sales, cost of sales, expenses, buying, leasing or doing without, the balance sheet and income statement, and much more. This is not a bookkeeping text per se. "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance For Nonfinancial Managers" teaches finance which is a broader topic. A strategic topic needed for successful growth of a company.
Unlike many introductory small business books, "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance For Nonfinancial Managers" does a really good job discussing budgeting and long-range planning. Using the numbers to plan rather than just recording them for the sake of tax-reporting purposes is what finance and financial decision-making is all about.
Further, Cooke makes financial business planning, which is considered by many to be a boring topic, rather fun to read. He follows the new fictional start-up company, The Spouse House Company. The company makes little sheds, Spouse Houses, for spouses who are in the dog house and who need a little shed in the backyard to hang out in until trouble blows over and domestic tranquility is restored.
The book ends with a short self-test you can take to see if you have retained the information covered in the book. But, hey, this is real life and not school. You don't have to take the short little test if you don't want to. Nor do you have to work out the short review questions. But, I'd recommend you do.
"The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance For Nonfinancial Managers" is not only very readable, but reads quickly at only about 270 pages. That means you will be able to read it twice.
In addition to "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance For Nonfinancial Managers," if you are starting your own business, you should also pick up a copy of "Small Time Operator," which covers taxation dates and issues, and a copy of my own "Thinking Like An Entrepreneur." These three books will give you a strong tripod base upon which to build your small business and entrepreneurial finance knowledge.
Peter Hupalo, Author of "Thinking Like An Entrepreneur."
Excellent use of Humor to teach Finance.......1998-11-18
Robert Cooke use humor throughout the book to help nonfinancial manager understand financial reports. The use of the Spouse House Firm throughout the book allows you to see the develop of financial reports as they apply to a small growing firm. Robert writes as he is right in front of you talking to someone he has known for a long time. He uses humor to help you understand the difficult concepts of the book. If you are looking to learn financial statements or just refresh your skills this is the book I recommend.
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Health Care Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers is a practical financial management text for those who need basic financial management knowledge and a better understanding of health care finance. Using actual examples from hospitals, long-term care facilities, and home health agencies, this text will enable you to read, analyze, understand, and use financial statements and budgets in today's health care environment.
Customer Reviews:
Ok basic, but not too helpful.......2006-02-26
This book gives a good basic overview of the health care finance. Its best feature is that it is applied to health care only, so you don't have to go through other business models. I cannot see using it in the future though - if you are planning to manage your office/work on a budget/evaluate your organization from a financial stand point, this is not the book you will need.
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J. Fred Weston provides managers and executives with the information they need to understand essential accounting principles, from vocabulary and financial statements to cash flow and valuation. Covering balance sheets, income statements, reporting measures, and even essential ratios, this practical, in-depth book provides a one-stop, reference for all aspects of finance and accounting, and will help managers take essential steps toward making informed decisions based on the numbers they face every business day.
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J. Fred Weston provides managers and executives with the information they need to understand essential accounting principles, from vocabulary and financial statements to cash flow and valuation. Covering balance sheets, income statements, reporting measures, and even essential ratios, this practical, in-depth book provides a one-stop, reference for all aspects of finance and accounting, and will help managers take essential steps toward making informed decisions based on the numbers they face every business day.
Customer Reviews:
What if you want something to help you get to this level of material first?.......2007-05-02
Business Basics Bestseller 1: The Easy, Interesting, Open-book Look at the Game of Business Numbers! 2nd Edition
If you never had this F&A stuff explained to you before, you will like "Business Basics Bestseller 1" as a starting point.
It will introduce you to the basics of business including the jargon behind the numbers and where all the formulas come from before you plow into a true "finance and accounting text." Search for "Business Basics Bestseller 1" and add it to your consideration. This is not a suggestion that you substitute it for this text, just that you check it out as well. It will be one of your best investments.
Excellent!!.......2001-07-13
One of the best F&A books written for general managers I have read. Detailed enough to give the reader an excellent grasp of the subject, but doesn't require calculus to understand. If you're a manager who cringes during discussions of cash flow, cost of capital, and discount rates, this book is for you. Can't wait for other titles in the series!
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