Key Management Ratios: The clearest guide to the critical numbers that drive your business (Financial Times Series) - Softcover

Walsh, Ciaran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273707310 ISBN 13: 9780273707318

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2005

Synopsis

Business ratios are the figures that provide management with targets and standards for their organisation. They direct businesses towards the most beneficial long-term strategies, as well as towards effective decision making.

This book enables managers of different functions to work together towards achieving business goals. It links the return on financial resources into the day-to-day operating parameters of the business - skills which any manager from any background can implement.

Areas covered include:

the foundations

the cash flow cycle

financial leverage

measuring and operating performance

corporate valuation

investment ratios

There is now a revised edition of this book available and the isbn is 9780273719090

About this title

About the Author

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 year's 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 stockmarket valuation.

From the Back Cover

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Business ratios count. They are the tools we manage by and the rules we’re measured by.Key Management Ratios cuts straight to the measures that matter, shows what they areand outlines how they link together to drive your business. Its clarity of explanation and unique visual presentation take the fear out of management ratios and make these critical financial tools accessible to every manager.

 

From earnings per share and cash flow to return on investment and sales to fixed assets ratios, this popular classic guides managers through the key ratios at the heart of business performance and practice. If you can apply these essential financial measures with confidence, you will be able to achieve better returns on your investments, develop more focussed long-term strategies and make more effective decisions.

 

This popular classic will help you operate the levers of management with speed and confidence every time.

Edition details

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0273707310
• ISBN 13: 9780273707318
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 416