Financial Analysis Tools and Techniques: A Guide for Managers (Repost)

Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques adapts this seminal reference to today's fast-changing professional market and establishes a new benchmark for direct, concise, and practical financial analysis information and interpretation. Specifically addressing key analytical needs in the tumultuous twenty-first-century business environment, it comments on valuable business applications of the tools and concepts with insights from Erich Helfert and his consulting clients.
Providing focused analyses of the economics of business investments and valuation, presenting discussions of cash-flow trade-offs and time-value analysis against the strategic backdrop of the business system, and emphasizing enhancement of shareholder value through value-based management (VBM), Financial Analysis: Tools and Techniques will help all nonfinancial managers to make sound investment, operating, and financing decisions. Concise yet sufficiently detailed, it covers the full range of financial analysis issues, including:
Managing the business as a system
Financial statements
Funds cycles for manufacturing, sales, and service
Cash management
Ratio analysis and performance
Pro-forma financial statements
Financial modeling
Leverage
Financial growth plans
Time value of money
Analysis of investment decisions
Using return standards
Cost of capital
Financing choices
Definitions of value
Shareholder value and value-based methodologies