The Vest Pocket CFO - Softcover

Shim, Jae K.; Siegel, Joel G.

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ISBN 10: 0471715719 ISBN 13: 9780471715719

Publisher: Wiley, 2005

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The perfect speedy reference for today's overburdened financial managers

The Vest Pocket CFO, Second Edition offers vital support for CFOs and financial executives who need to simplify their day-to-day workloads. Written in any easy Q & A format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions to a wide variety of finance and accounting problems, it speeds readers through such complex tasks as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, internal control and financial reporting, financial statement analysis, and much more. This small but powerful resource helps busy financial managers:
* Solve business problems with instant access to key techniques, tips, and strategies
* Analyze, evaluate, and solve financial issues in a hurry with handy ratios, procedures, and rules of thumb
* Use sample reports and guidelines to help complete complex tasks in a jiffy

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The newly updated fast-reference problem solver

The Vest Pocket CFO—the convenient, comprehensive reference that professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years—is now updated in a new Second Edition to give today's busy financial managers and executives the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere—to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving day-to-day accounting issues, The Vest Pocket CFO, Second Edition helps you quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. In an easy-to-use Q & A format, it covers such useful topics as Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, corporate governance, financial planning and modeling, information technology (IT) applications, balanced scorecard, target costing, life-cycle costing, risk management, activity-based costing (ABC), capital budgeting, and much more.

The Vest Pocket CFO, Second Edition is a powerful companion for the complex, ever-changing world of accounting and finance.

About the Author:

JAE K. SHIM, PhD, is Professor of Accounting and Finance at California State University, Long Beach, and also serves as an industrial consultant. He is a CFO of Delta Consulting Company. Dr. Shim has published more than fifty books, including the bestselling Vest-Pocket MBA, which has sold more than 500,000 copies.

JOEL G. SIEGEL, PhD, CPA, is Professor of Accounting at Queens College of the City University of New York. He is the author of sixty-seven books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. He was a member of the audit staff of Coopers & Lybrand, and he has consulted in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person/Wolinsky CPA Review Course.

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