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Finance basics : decode the jargon, navigate key statements, gauge performance.

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Harvard Business Review Press, c2014.

Corporations -- Finance.

Managerial accounting.

20 minute manager series.

9781625270856 (pbk.)

1625270852 (pbk.)

ix, 131 p. ; 18 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why understand finance? -- Navigating the three major financial statements -- Accounting methods -- income statement -- balance sheet -- cash flow statement -- Using the statements to measure financial health -- Profitability ratios -- Efficiency ratios -- Liquidity ratios -- Leverage ratios -- Other ways to measure financial health -- Preparing a budget -- Top-down versus bottom-up budgeting -- Getting started -- Articulating your assumptions -- Quantifying your assumptions -- Calculating return on investment -- Costs and benefits -- Payback period -- Net present value and internal rate of return -- Break-even analysis -- Sensitivity analysis -- Evaluating unquantifiable costs and benefits -- Tracking performance -- Performance of an investment -- Performance of an existing unit -- Forecasts -- Test yourself.

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