Key Management Ratios: Master the Management Metrics That Drive and Control Your Business - Softcover

Walsh, Ciaran

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0273663453 ISBN 13: 9780273663454

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 2003

Synopsis

Business ratios are the guiding stars by which you steer your company's course; they provide your targets and your standards; they direct you towards the best long-term strategies as well as the smartest short-term solutions. You can't afford to leave them to the accountants. In Key Management Ratios, Third Edition, top financial educator Cieran Walsh teaches you everything you need to knowabout ratios to manage your business far more effectively. This book's thoroughly updated coverage includes: financial statements, balance sheets, and P&Ls; measures and drivers of operating performance; corporate liquidity, financial strength, and cash flow; determinants of corporate value; cost,volume, and price relationships; investment ratios, acquisition analysis, and Shareholder Value-Added (SVA). Simply put, Cieran Walsh enables you to link your company's financial fundamentals to its day-to-day operations--so you can make smarter decisions based on better information.

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.

Review:

"Thank God for Ciaran Walsh's ultra-clear guide." Business Age magazine

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times Management
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0273663453
• ISBN 13: 9780273663454
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400