The fast and easy way to grasp cash flow management
Cash Flow For Dummies offers small business owners,
accountants, prospective entrepreneurs, and others responsible for
cash management an informational manual to cash flow basics and
proven success strategies. Cash Flow For Dummies is an essential
guide to effective strategies that will make your business more
appealing on the market. Loaded with valuable tips and techniques,
it teaches individuals and companies the ins and outs of maximizing
cash flow, the fundamentals of cash management, and how it affects
the quality of a company’s earnings.
Cash flow is the movement of cash into or out of a business,
project, or financial product. It is usually measured during a
specified, finite period of time, and can be used to measure rates
of return, actual liquidity, real profits, and to evaluate the
quality of investments. Cash Flow For Dummies gives you an
understanding of the basic principles of cash management and its
core principles to facilitate small business success.
* Covers how to read cash flow statements
* Illustrates how cash balances are analyzed and
monitored–including internal controls over cash receipts and
disbursements, plus bank account reconciliation and activity
analysis
* Tips on how to avoid the pitfalls of granting
credit–evaluating customer credit, sources of credit
information, and overall credit policy
* Advice on how to prevent fraud and waste
* Covers cash-generating tactics when doing business with
dot-coms, other start-ups, and bankrupt customers
Cash Flow For Dummies is an easy-to-understand guide that
covers all of these essentials for success and more.
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Introduction 1
Part I: Fitting Cash Flow into the Big Picture of Running a
Business 7
Chapter 1: Getting in Sync with the Rhythm of Cash 9
Chapter 2: Why Accrual Accounting Is Essential 23
Chapter 3: The Big Three Financial Statements 37
Chapter 4: Getting a Grip on the Statement of Cash Flows 59
Part II: Using Financial Statements to Assess Cash Health
81
Chapter 5: Mining the Balance Sheet for Cash 83
Chapter 6: Digging Deeper into Cash Flow 113
Chapter 7: Understanding Liquidity versus Available Cash 131
Part III: Getting Intimate with Your Company’s Cash Flow
Needs 157
Chapter 8: Creating a Business Plan to Secure Cash 159
Chapter 9: Building Best-in-Class Projection Models to Manage
Cash 173
Chapter 10: Identifying and Securing External Sources of Capital
193
Chapter 11: Knowing When to Use Debt to Finance Your Business
213
Part IV: Managing Your Business with Cash Flow in Mind
239
Chapter 12: Covering the Basics of Cash and Cash Activity
241
Chapter 13: Preventing Cash Losses from Embezzlement and Fraud
267
Chapter 14: Managing the Selling Cycle to Improve Cash Flows
281
Chapter 15: Managing the Disbursement Cycle to Improve Cash
Flows 311
Part V: The Part of Tens 331
Chapter 16: Ten Keys to Managing Cash Flows in a Small Business
333
Chapter 17: Ten Tales of Cash-Flow Woes 341
Index 351
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Tage C. Tracy is principal owner of TMK & Associates, an accounting, financial, and strategic business planning consulting firm.
John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado in Boulder and the author of Accounting For Dummies.
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