Handbook of Financial Analysis forecasting and modeling - Softcover

Shim, Jae K.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0808089099 ISBN 13: 9780808089094

Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct, 2001

Synopsis

The Handbook of Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Modeling is a practical guide of proven techniques, strategies, and approaches that are successfully used by professionals who diagnose and manage the financial and operating health of businesses. It illustrates and explains the time-tested techniques that help analyze financial decisions. The book explains what financial tools and techniques to use and how to apply them. Computational examples and illustration guide the reader through each presentation. Proven checklists, ratios, formulas and statistical techniques are clearly presented to help the reader to make smart decisions in all areas of financial management and operations. The revised edition of this classic gives you every forecasting formula and modeling technique needed to quickly and accurately analyze your entire business operation. You’ll find proven techniques to: • Evaluate proposals for profit potential • Improve short- and long-range forecasting • Effectively manage cash, accounts receivable, and working capital so you know that you money is working as hard as it can • Measure how vulnerable you company really is to economic development like recession or inflation Numerous charts, graphs, and worksheets give you real-world examples and a host of other practical tools. A companion CD-ROM gives you models and proven formulas you can use to: • Evaluate your company’s financial health and operating performance • Analyze investment proposals and make accurate investment decisions • Decrease working capital, boost cast flow, and slash accounts receivable • Bulletproof M&A decisions • Prepare successful financial modeling, including risk-return analysis, optimization models, sensitivity analysis, and goal programming • Track marketing effectiveness • Spot problem processes, departments or divisions in time to take corrective action

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Review

This comprehensive handbook provides every forecasting formula and modeling technique you need to analyze your business operation, both as a whole and by segment. You'll be provided with proven techniques that help you evaluate proposals for profit potential, proven methods that improve the accuracy of your short- and long-term forecasting, analysis tools that help you better manage working capital, cash, and accounts receivable, plus much more. You also receive dozens of worked-out models and modeling techniques that simplify your most difficult business decisions, and are easy to adapt to any computer spreadsheet program.

About the Author

Jae K. Shim is a professor of accounting and computer science at California State University. Joel G. Siegel is a professor of accounting and finance at Queens College of the City University of New York and a financial consultant. They are two of the most prolific authors of business, finance, and accounting publications in the United States today.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall Direct
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0808089099
• ISBN 13: 9780808089094
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 506