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

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

Ciaran Walsh is Senior Specialist Finance at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin, Ireland, where he researches the links tying corporate growth and capital structure to stock market valuation. Trained both as an economist and an accountant, he had 15 years' industry experience before joining the academic world. He has brought his unique approach to corporate finance training to professionals throughout Europe and the Middle East.