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    The Definitive Guide to Managing the Numbers

     
    A reference to help non-financial managers add up the numbers.
    3/15/2004
    A very accessible guide to the financial information, tools, and techniques managers commonly face. Written for executives and managers—not financial professionals—chapters look at "How the Finance Director Thinks" and "Business Across Borders" as well as the nuts-and-bolts topics you would expect such as "Building Balance Sheets" and "How to Forecast Anything." Each chapter covers a different financial topic and includes a list of "10 questions to ask or be asked" as well as a list of the common jargon. The author, with experience in the British financial sector, is conscious throughout of clarifying variations between British and American financial nomenclature, and includes an extensive glossary. This is a useful reference for your daily confrontation with "the numbers."
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