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The 30 Day MBA in Business Financehelps readers learn the major points of a business finance curriculum without the expense. It shows them how to become a financial strategist, how to move out of their disciplinary straightjacket, and how to become a top manager. Based on UK accounting practices, this book offers the reader a wide knowledge of finance to make them more marketable as a job candidate. The book includes fifteen case studies, including studies of the Bulgarian government (the most aggressive corporate tax regime in Europe), Lloyd's, Northern Rock, the embattled British bank, and Lehman Brothers, the now bankrupt financial services firm.

Colin Barrow has spent 15 years applying the principles and knowledge acquired through his own MBA to successfully running companies. He has lectured, researched and collaborated with colleagues in business schools in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, the Far East and throughout Europe. Currently a visiting fellow at Cranfield University, he is also the author of The Business Plan Workbook, Financial Management for the Small Business and Starting a Business from Home as well as The 30 Day MBA, The 30 Day MBA in international Businessand The 30 Day MBA in Marketing (all published by Kogan Page).

List of figures	p. viii
List of tables	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The fundamentals of business finance	p. 7
Financial business reports	p. 9
Who uses financial information and why	p. 10
Accounting branches	p. 11
Bookkeeping - the way transactions are recorded	p. 13
Cash flow	p. 16
The profit and loss account (income statement)	p. 21
The balance sheet	p. 24
The rules of the game	p. 31
Fundamental conventions	p. 31
Accounting conventions	p. 35
The rule makers	p. 36
International accounting standards	p. 37
Protecting investors	p. 37
Analysing financial reports	p. 38
Analysing accounts	p. 40
Accounting ratios	p. 41
Some problems in using ratios	p. 49
Getting company accounts	p. 51
Using financial data to improve performance	p. 56
Finance as a value creator	p. 66
Cost, volume, pricing and profit decisions	p. 68
Profit maximization vs shareholder value	p. 78
The cost of capital	p. 79
Future investment decisions	p. 83
Outsourcing	p. 86
Shares and markets	p. 89
Corporate capital structures	p. 91
The role of business structures in financing business	p. 93
Corporate structures	p. 94
Help and advice on business corporate structure	p. 99
Debt finance	p. 100
Bank lending	p. 101
Local financing initiatives	p. 105
Bonds, debentures and mortgages	p. 106
Asset usage financing	p. 111
Equity	p. 115
Private equity	p. 117
Public capital	p. 125
What investors want	p. 135
Hybrids	p. 138
Money for free	p. 138
Financial strategies and special topics	p. 141
Risk management	p. 143
Gearing - leverage	p. 144
Customer default	p. 147
Online and distance trading	p. 156
Foreign exchange	p. 156
Business tax and reporting procedures	p. 159
Principles of taxation	p. 160
Tax types	p. 161
Auditors - the gatekeepers	p. 164
Filing accounts	p. 168
Directors' responsibilities and duties	p. 169
Values and the accounting reports	p. 171
Mergers and acquisitions	p. 174
Going on the acquisition trail	p. 176
Valuing a target	p. 179
Limit the risks	p. 184
City code on takeovers and mergers	p. 186
Business plans and budgets	p. 187
Forecasting	p. 188
Economic cycles	p. 190
Business plans	p. 193
Budgets and variances	p. 197
The core	p. 201
Marketing	p. 202
Organizational behaviour	p. 208
Motivation	p. 214
Strategy	p. 217
Shaping strategy - tools and techniques	p. 222
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The 30 Day MBA in Business Finance

The 30 Day MBA in Business Finance

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