Financial Management Essentials You Always Wanted To Know: 4th Edition provides new managers and leaders with the foundational concepts of financial management. Having deep knowledge of law, engineering, and other professional disciplines doesn't prepare someone for the key role finance plays in business. This book provides an overview of core financial concepts such as: • Analysis of financial statements • Cost of Capital • Creating a capital budget • Managing working capital • Stocks and dividends • Forecasting Each chapter provides clear examples of financial management practice and includes practice exercises to help train the reader in the usage of these critical tools. This edition also includes Chapter Summaries and Solutions to Practice Exercises. This book is part of the Self-Learning Management Series that helps working professionals moving into management roles. About the Series The Self-Learning Management series is designed to help students, new managers, career switchers and entrepreneurs learn essential management lessons. This series is designed to address every aspect of business from HR to Finance to Marketing to Operations, be it any industry. Each book includes basic fundamentals, important concepts, standard and well-known principles as well as practical ways of application of the subject matter. The distinctiveness of the series lies in that all the relevant information is bundled in a compact form that is very easy to interpret.
