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Tabla de materias
Part 1. Reports and Filings.
One. Chief Financial Officer’s Reports.
Two. Securities and Exchange
Commission Filings.
Part 2. Financial Accounting.
Three. Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement.
Four. Financial Statement Reporting:
The Balance Sheet.
Five. The Statement of Cash Flows.
Six. Accounting and Disclosures.
Seven. Key Financial Accounting Areas.
Eight. Interim and Segmental Reporting.
Part 3. Management Accounting.
Nine. Cost Management and Analysis.
Ten. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis
and Leverage.
Eleven. Short-Term Decisions.
Twelve. Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting.
Thirteen. Risk Management.
Fourteen. Capital Budgeting.
Fifteen. What and Why of Responsibility Accounting.
Sixteen. Control of Profit Centers.
Seventeen. Performance of Investment Centers
and Transfer Pricing.
Eighteen. How To Analyze And Improve Corporate Profitability And
Shareholder Value.
Nineteen. Sustainable Growth Model.
Part 4. Management of Assets
and Payables.
Twenty. Working Capital and Cash
Management.
Twenty-one. Management of Accounts Receivable.
Twenty-two. Inventory Management.
Twenty-three. Management of Payables.
Part 5. Financing the Business.
Twenty-four. Short-Term and Intermediate-Term
Financing.
Twenty-five. Long-Term Financing.
Twenty-six. Warrants And Convertibles.
Twenty-seven. Cost of Capital and Capital.
Twenty-eight. Dividend Policy.
Twenty-nine. Financial Management Of Multinational
Corporations.
Part 6. Financial Analysis.
Thirty. Financial Statement Analysis.
Thirty-one. Analysis, Evaluation, and Control
of Revenue and Costs.
Thirty-two. Insurance and Legal Considerations.
Thirty-three. Basics of Economics.
PAart 7. Investments.
Thirty-four. Corporate Investments In Securities.
Part 8. Taxation.
Thirty-five. Tax Factors In Financial
Decision Making.
Part 9. Mergers, Divestitures, Failure, And
Reorganization.
Thirty-six. Mergers And Acquisitions.
Thirty-seven. Divestiture.
Thirty-eight. Forecasting Corporate Financial
Thirty-nine. Failure and Reorganization.
Appendix.
Index.
Sobre el autor
Jae K. Shim, Ph D, has authored or coauthored more than fifty
professional and college accounting books. He is CEO of Delta
Consulting Co., a financial consulting and training firm and has
been a consultant to commercial and nonprofit organizations for
over thirty years.
Joel G. Siegel, Ph D, CPA, is the author of over fifty
books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and
financial journals. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in
accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T,
Citicorp, and Person-Wolinsky CPA Review.