Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
by Karen Berman, Joe Knight, John Case
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Author: Joe Knight, John Case, Karen BermanEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2006-01-12
ISBN: 1591397642
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
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Summary: 5 Stars
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to understand financial concepts. If you are considering opening or starting a business this should be a must read for you.
Summary of Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
Companies expect managers to use financial data to allocate resources and run their departments. But many managers can’t read a balance sheet, wouldn’t recognize a liquidity ratio, and don’t know how to calculate return on investment. Worse, they don’t have any idea where the numbers come from or how reliable they really are.In Financial Intelligence, Karen Berman and Joe Knight teach the basics of finance—but with a twist. Financial reporting, they argue, is as much art as science. Since nobody can quantify everything, accountants always rely on estimates, assumptions, and judgment calls. Savvy managers need to know how those sources of possible bias can affect the financials—and they need to know that sometimes the numbers can be challenged.
While providing the foundation for a deep understanding of the financial side of business, the book also arms managers with practical strategies for improving their companies’ performance—strategies such as “managing the balance sheet” that are well understood by financial professionals but rarely shared with their nonfinancial colleagues.
Accessible, jargon-free, and filled with entertaining stories of real companies, Financial Intelligence will help nonfinancial managers be smarter and more confident in their everyday work.
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