Covers all the essentials from break-even analysis to taking your company public . . . Full of up-to-date financial and managerial information.Entrepreneur Magazine
This book is for every manager and business professional who wants to know what the numbers mean and how finance and accounting can be used to help manage business. No prior background in finance and accounting is required. Each chapter takes readers into the classrooms at the nation's top business schools and provides a state-of-the-art overview of all key topics, including budgeting, financial statements, break-even analysis, and evaluating an acquisitions target.
New chapters cover computer technology, valuing a business, and financial risk First Edition a Main Selection of Book of the Month Club's Fortune Book Club AUTHORBIO: JOHN LESLIE LIVINGSTONE (Palm Beach, Florida) was a senior partner at Coopers & Lybrand and is a principle with the MAC group. He has taught at Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and Babson College.
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I found a lot of the sections unclear, mostly because the authors skimp on the necessary math, trying to describe numeric concepts with words; Sort of like "using a screwdriver to carve roast beef," as Tom Robbins once quipped. Additionally, the Portable MBA series' format, with different authors each writing a chapter, detracts from the book's cohesiveness. A book by one author (or several edited into one continuous voice) tends to hold together better. For example, I got more out of the briefer introduction to fiscal management, "Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager" by Steven Finkler due to its one-voice cohesiveness than I did from the Portable MBA.
On the up side, the first chapter is a brilliant exposition on how day-to-day business activities translate into the standard accounting reports. This section also illustrates how a manager can use spreadsheets to observe how changing prices or costs affect the "bottom line," and how financials can be used to build a strategy. I also found the chapter on budgeting quite helpful. However, when the book delves into finance, the lack of math really begins to take its toll. If it weren't for the Finkler book, I doubt I would have the faintest idea what capital budgeting was all about. All things considered, "The PMBA in F&A" is a decent but flawed book. However, when it is on, it is brilliant.
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