TY - BOOK AU - Berman,Karen AU - Case,John AU - Knight,Joe TI - Financial intelligence: a manager´s guide to knowing what the numbers really mean SN - 1591397642 U1 - 658.1511 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Harvard Business School Press KW - Compañías KW - Finanzas KW - Estados financieros KW - Flujo de caja KW - Administración N1 - Incluye bibliografía; I: The art of finance (and why it matters) -- You can´t always trust the numbers -- Spotting assumptions, estimates, and biases -- Why increase your financial intelligence? -- II: The (many) peculiarities of the income statement -- Profit is an estimate -- Cracking the code of the income statement -- Revenue: the issue is recognition -- Costs and expenses: no hard and fast rules -- The many forms of profit -- III: The balance sheet reveals the most -- Understanding balance-sheet basics -- Assets: more estimates and assumptions (except for cash) -- On the other side: liabilities and equity -- Why the balance sheet balances -- The income statement affects the balance sheet -- IV: Cash is king -- Cash is a reality check -- Profit?: cash (and you need both) -- The language of cash flow -- How cash connects with everything else -- Why cash matters -- V: Ratios: learning what the numbers are really telling you -- The power of ratios -- Profitability ratios: the higher the better -- Leverage ratios: the balancing act -- Liquidity ratios: can we pay our bills? -- Efficiency ratios: making the most of your assets -- VI: How to calculate (and really understand) return on investment -- The building blocks of ROI -- Figuring ROI: the nitty gritty -- VII: Applied financial intelligence: working capital management -- The magic of managing the balance sheet -- Your balance sheet levers -- Homing in on cash conversion -- VIII: Creating a financially intelligent department (and organization) -- Financial literacy and corporate performance -- Financial literacy strategies -- Financial transparency: our ultimate goal UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005025556.html ER -