Business ratios, formulas and statistics are used by business managers and analysts to evaluate company operations in major industries. This book explains how to interpret and apply these complex methods.
Book Details:
- Author: Steven M. Bragg
- ISBN: 9780471463481
- Year Published: 2001
- Pages: 352
- BISAC: BUS001040, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Accounting / Managerial
About the Book and Topic:
Business ratios, formulas and statistics are used by business managers and analysts to evaluate company operations in major industries. This book explains how to interpret and apply these complex methods.
Business managers need a description of the key management ratios and formulas for companies to use to evaluate their operations. This book provides a comprehensive and thorough list of every ratios and formulas, and how to compile and interpret that information.
* Contains case studies at the end of every chapter that uses many of the ratios, formula, and statistical tools in the book. * Includes an appendix of accounting and financial terms and an appendix that itemizes the specific analysis tools that are most useful in specific industries. * Offers a recommended set of analysis tools of each of several major industries.
About the Author
STEVEN M. BRAGG, CPA, CMA, CIA, CPM, CPIM, has been the chief financial officer or controller of four companies, as well as a consulting manager at Ernst & Young. He received a master’s degree in finance from Bentley College, an MBA from Babson College, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Maine. He is also author of Just-In-Time Accounting and Managing Explosive Corporate Growth and coauthor of The Controller’s Function, all from Wiley. He resides in Englewood, Colorado.