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 | | Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide by Steven M. Bragg ISBN-10: 9780471376729 ISBN-10: 0-471-37672-8 ISBN-13: 9780471376729 ISBN-13: 978-0-471-37672-9 Hardcover 2000-04-15 Wiley Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Move Beyond the Routine to the Innovative From processing accounts payable and closing the books in a timely fashion to making recommendations for improvements that will enhance a company's overall performance, corporate controllers and financial managers have a wide range of responsibilities. But these tasks also represent a wide area of opportunity. The controller who has developed skills beyond that of routine accounting management to include innovative financial analysis can become a highly valued member of a company's infrastructure. This opens the door to a variety of promotions and high-level interactions with other departments. Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide is designed to help the controller acquire and apply top-notch financial analysis skills. In addition to covering the traditional aspects of the field, here are thorough analyses of such advanced topics as: * Evaluating acquisition targets * Increasing shareholder value * Determining the break-even point * Forecasting future business conditions * Using sample analysis reports * Determining the cost of capital * Analyzing risk Here is hard-to-find coverage of management performance review systems, process cycle analysis techniques, and capacity analysis methods-plus checklists, advice, and detailed examples and comprehensive explanations of many internal areas. This guide will be an indispensable tool for the controller who is interested in enhancing career opportunities in the field. Benefit Your Company-and Your Career As a corporate controller, financial manager, or treasurer, companies rely on your judgment in order to run smoothly and to grow both strategically and financially. But when it comes to your own personal career growth, moving past the often mundane functions of the job requires sharpened financial analysis skills. Financial Analysis: A Controller's Guide addresses both the classical aspects of the field, including capital purchase and acquisition target analysis, as well as comprehensive information on the analysis of many internal areas. Here is invaluable guidance regarding: * How to improve a corporation's overall performance * When to buy assets * How to increase shareholder value * How to recognize indicators of specific underlying problems * How to use financial analysis reports, including electronic spreadsheets * How to determine future business conditions . . . and much more, to help raise your visibility within the company, and earn the recognition, promotions, and career success you deserve. | ||
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The Best Textbook I Ever Read! I purchased the book as part of my CPA Continuing Education credit program. I was pleasantly surprised. Relevant information with sufficient explanations in clear and concise language. A definite must read and must keep as reference material for any controller or financial analyst. | ||
Too simple for the real world This book does not provide any information that could not be found in a college level textbook. The assumptions and examples provided in the book are over simplified. If you are anything higher than a junior accountant I would suggest you purchase something else. Calling this book a "Controller's Guide" is just plain wrong. | ||
A MUST HAVE...PRACTICAL, EASY TO USE; INSIGHTFUL! After over 10 years in the field serving as a Controller, Business Manager, and Consultant, finally a practitioner's book that hits the target. Given the vast topic, Bragg nails the critical issues...gets you in & out of each topic quickly and provides an array of useful tools for analysis, presentation, and discussion. The KISS principle at work! Other books may cover more detail, present more elaborate formulas and in general overwhelm the reader. Bragg doesn't. You'll find his summaries quite helpful: Commonly Used Ratios; Symptoms & Solutions; and Exhibit 6.11 Recommended Analyses by Type of Acquisition, for example. Full of practical, hands-on topic reviews, examples, and analytical thinking. Numerous Exhibits showing practical layouts for presenting information...have saved me time & eliminated the need to reinvent the wheel. A must have for my reference tools...and could have eliminated several books in my MBA. Do what's in this book & do it well and you'll build a solid reputation for you and your team. I liked this book so much that I added Bragg's books "Sales & Operations For Your Small Business" and "Accounting & Finance For Your Small Business" to my tools, too...and have been equally pleased. | ||
Great Guide for a Controller This is the only guide I am aware of that is specifically tailored to the needs of the practicing controller. The chapters on breakeven analysis, capacity utilization, and (especially) the use of an electronic spreadsheet are perfect. I find myself taking this book off the shelf for reference purposes at least once a week. Highly recommended. | ||
Too simple, too young & too naive Too simple assumption on work of a controller. Too young to call himself a 'controller' if he works like the book quoted Too naive if you think the real world would be like that. | ||