Key Management Ratios
4th Edition
Published on 16. October 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-273-71909-0 (ISBN)
Description
With over 33,000 copies sold, Key Management Ratios is a market "classic". This new edition is re-packaged with a new jacket design to revitalise the Key Management brand and new two-colour internals make it more readable and visually appealing.
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.
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.
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Series
Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Harlow
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pearson Education Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
612 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-273-71909-0 (9780273719090)
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Ciaran Walsh
Key Management Ratios
E-Book
04/2010
4th Edition
Financial Times / Prentice Hall;Pearson Professional;Pearson FT Press
€29.49
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Ciaran Walsh
Key Management Ratios
The clearest guide to the critical numbers that drive your business
Book
12/2005
4th Edition
FT Press
€41.39
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Person
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.
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.
Content
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Key for symbols
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
Foreword
Key for symbols
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