The Finance Book Understand the numbers even if you're not a finance professional

The Finance Book will help you think and manage like a financial strategist. Written specifically for non-finance professionals, it will give you all you need to know to manage your business more effectively and think more strategically. 

It will help you to:

• Have the confidence to read and interpret financial statements
• Ask the right questions about financial performance
• Apply important financial tools and ratios
• Learn how to think financially and make better strategic financial decisions

Covering business finance, accounting fundamentals, budgeting, profitability and cash management, you'll find the tools you need in order to make the best financial decisions for your business.

• 1 Finance personnel and systems
• 2 Cash versus accruals accounting
• 3 Profit and loss (P&L)
• 4 The balance sheet
• 5 Cash flow statement
• 6 Revenue recognition
• 7 Opex and capex
• 8 Business tax
• 9 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation
• 10 Goodwill and other intangibles
• 11 Stock
• 12 Debtors and creditors
• 13 Prepayments and accruals
• 14 Provisions and contingencies
• 15 Capital and reserves
• 16 Group accounting
• 17 Revaluation
• 18 Impairment
• 19 Accounting and financial reporting standards
• 20 External financial audit
• 21 Information in the public domain
• 22 Corporate governance and whistleblowing
• 23 Profitability performance measures
• 24 Working capital and liquidity management
• 25 Insolvency and going concern risk
• 26 Long-term solvency performance measures
• 27 Investor ratios
• 28 Business valuation
• 29 Equity finance
• 30 Debt finance
• 31 Management accounts
• 32 Profitable pricing
• 33 Profit planning
• 34 Budgeting and forecasting
• 35 Investment appraisal
• Glossary

Stuart Warner is a Chartered Accountant, author, non-executive adviser and trainer, with over two decades of experience in finance.  He is a director of Financial Fluency Ltd and delivers finance based training programmes around the world to both finance and non finance professionals. Over his career, Stuart has taught thousands of trainee accountants to pass their professional exams for six different professional accounting qualifications. He has helped thousands of qualified accountants keep up to date and meet their CPD qualifications as well as training many people from non-finance backgrounds to understand financial matters.

Si Hussain is an experienced CEO. Over the past decade, Si has held chief executive and senior management roles in several listed national and multinational businesses. Si qualified in 1991 as a chartered accountant. During his quarter-century career Si has been author and examiner across a number of business subjects and has delivered training extensively in finance, economics and accounting to students and professionals from around the world.