Key Management Ratios: The Clearest Guide to the Critical Numbers That Drive Your Business (Financial Times)

A solid bestseller from the hugely successful Key Management Series. This book enables managers of different functions to work together towards achieving common business goals, linking the return on financial resources into the day-to-day operating parameters of the business.

• An essential guide that shows you how to analyse, compare and control the figures that drive company value - if you understand how these ratios work, you’ll manage your company’s performance better.
• It offers an intelligent but "ultra-clear" description of the essential management ratios - with visual aids.
• Nails a confusing area that courses and other books ignore.

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.