Business ratios, formulas, and statistics are used by business managers and analysts to evaluate company operations in major industries. This book represents a comprehensive resource of nearly 250 operational criteria, allowing managers and auditors to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization’s performance. Each cataloged measurement includes a description, an example, and some time-tested troubleshooting. This is an authoritative resource for managers wishing to thoroughly assess organizational performance.
Book Details:
- Author: Steven M. Bragg
- ISBN: 9780470089866
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 384
- 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 represents a comprehensive resource of nearly 250 operational criteria, allowing managers and auditors to pick and choose the tools they need to best assess their organization’s performance. Each cataloged measurement includes a description, an example, and some time-tested troubleshooting. This is an authoritative resource for managers wishing to thoroughly assess organizational performance.
Business managers require a variety of analytical tools to assess a host of organizational performance standards– from finance, efficiency, capacity, and market share to asset utilization, cash flows, liquidity, and capital structure. This book provides a comprehensive and thorough list of every ratio and formula, and how to compile and interpret that information.
AUTHOR: Steve Bragg is the foremost authority in Controllership issues. He is also one of the most prolific and best-selling accounting authors at Wiley. NEW TO THIS EDITION: The 2nd Edition includes approximately 50 new ratios and formulas, as well as new chapters covering ratios and formulas for e-commerce and human resources. Case studies at the end of every chapter that use many of the ratios and formulas in the book and an Appendix of dictionary of accounting and finance terms.
About the Author
Steven M. Bragg (Centennial, CO), 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 has also written the following books: Accounting and Finance for Your Small Business (Wiley), Accounting Best Practices (Wiley), Accounting Reference Desktop (Wiley), Advanced Accounting Systems (Institute of Internal Auditors), Controllership (Wiley), Cost Accounting (Wiley), Financial Analysis (Wiley), Just-in-Time Accounting (Wiley), Managing Explosive Corporate Growth (Wiley), Outsourcing (Wiley), Sales and Operations for Your Small Business (Wiley), and The Controller’s Function (Wiley).