Key Management Ratios: Master the management metrics that drive and control your business - Softcover

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Ciaran Walsh is Senior Specialist Finance at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin. He is trained both as an economist and an accountant and had 15 year's industry experience before joining the academic world.His work with senior managers over many years has enabled him to develop his own unique approach to training corporate finance. As a consequence, he has lectured in most European countries, and the Middle East. His main research interest is to identify and computerize the links that tie corporate growth and capital structure into stockmarket valuation.

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Management ratios. Two of the scariest words any normal human being in business can be asked to understand. Full arcane terminology and incomprehensible equations. And yet it is absolutely fundamental to the way we manage our businesses. Quite simply, if you understand how these ratios work, you’ll manage your company’s performance better.

Business ratios are the guiding stars by which you steer your company’s course; they provide your targets and your standards; they direct you towards the best long-term strategies as well as the smartest short-term solutions. Leaving them to the accountants is not an option.

The third edition of the international best seller Key Management Ratios includes new material on acquisition analysis. With ultra-clear text and visual aids the book enables you to understand the financial fundamentals of your company by linking the return on financial resources to the day-to-day operations of your business. Topics covered include:

• the cash flow cycle
• financial leverage
• measuring operating performance
• financial strength
• corporate valuation
• investment ratios
• performance drivers
• shareholder value added
• acquisition analysis