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Exclusive Accounting and business valuation methods: how to interpret IFRS accounts
  • 2008
  • Malcolm Howard
  • Elsevier Science and Technology
The author offers a detailed guide to the different methods of ascertaining the value of a business, taking into account the move away from UK GAAP towards IFRS. The book incorporates the story of a start-up business from initial conception to final acquisition, including risk assessment and company valuation. Along the way learn about double-entry book-keeping and how to prepare a trial balance, profit and loss accounts, balance sheet and cash flow statement.
Exclusive Accounting control best practices
  • 2009
  • Steven M. Bragg
  • John Wiley and Sons
Addresses one of the primary concerns in accounting today - how to develop a comprehensive system of accounting and operational controls. This concern has been exacerbated by the provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which requires public companies to report an assessment of their internal control structures and which has led to comprehensive control examinations by all types of companies. This second edition describes a complete set of controls for both a paper-based accounting process and a computerized system and then describes controls for more advanced best practices that are layered on t...
Exclusive Accounting disrupted
  • 2021
  • Al Bhimani
  • John Wiley & Sons
This book delivers a powerful analysis of the new technological forces buffeting the accounting profession and identifies key pathways to responding to the challenges. [It] shows readers how established business fundamentals are being eclipsed and that accounting has not been spared. You'll learn: how the new realities of digitalization, including big data and AI, are affecting audit work and financial management practices; how learning fast about and from more diverse data sources is essential to the new accounting environment; why accounting information must start to speak to what will take ...
Exclusive Accounting ethics
  • 2018
  • Brenda Shay Duska, Ronald F. Duska, Kenneth Wm. Kury
  • John Wiley
This book is a thorough and engaging exploration of the ethical issues that accountants encounter in their professional lives. To achieve the best results, individual accountants and accounting firms need a clear understanding of the ethical duties and decision-making involved in the four major functions of modern accounting--auditing, management accounting, tax accounting, and consulting--as well as a strong sense of ethical conduct to guide the certification and validation of reliable financial records.
Exclusive Accounting for goodwill and other intangible assets
  • 2018
  • Ervin L. Black, Mark L. Zyla
  • Wiley
This title looks at the treatment of goodwill and other intangibles under IFRS and US GAAP and explains common practice in valuing these assets. Chapters cover: recognising intangible assets; initial measurement of acquired intangible assets; amortising intangible assets; impairment testing for goodwill and other intangible assets; financial statement presentation and disclosures; deferred tax consequences of goodwill and and intangible assets.
Exclusive Accounting for value
  • 2011
  • Stephen Penman
  • Columbia University Press
Accounting for Value aims to teach investors and analysts how to handle accounting in evaluating equity investments. Its novel approach shows that valuation and accounting are much the same: valuation is actually a matter of accounting for value. Contains the chapters: return to fundamentals (and an accounting for the history of investment ideas); anchoring on fundamentals (and how accounting supplies the anchor); challenging market prices with fundamentals (and deploying accounting for a challenge); accounting for growth from leverage (and protection from paying too much for growth); accounti...
Exclusive Accounts receivable management best practices
  • 2005
  • John G. Salek
  • Wiley
Guide to managing accounts receivable, with practical techniques to drive improvement and achieve benefits such as increased cash flow, higher margins and a reduction in bad debt loss. Focuses primarily on commercial receivables management.
Exclusive Advanced Excel reporting for management accountants
  • 2014
  • Neale Blackwood
  • John Wiley and Sons
Learn about the Excel functions that can automate the process of financial reporting for management accountants. The book demonstrates how to create and run reports and apply software tools to two case studies.
Exclusive Art of business valuation : accurately valuing a small business
  • 2020
  • Gregory R. Caruso
  • Wiley
Starting from the practical viewpoint of, “I would rather be approximately right than perfectly wrong” this book provides a commonsense comprehensive framework for small business valuation that offers solutions to common problems faced by valuators and consultants both in performing valuations and providing ancillary advisory services to business owners, sellers, and buyers. If you conduct small business valuations, you may be seeking guidance on topics and problems specific to your work. Focus on What Matters: A Different Way of Valuing a Small Business fills a previous void in valuation reso...
Exclusive Artificial Intelligence for Audit, Forensic Accounting, and Valuation : A Strategic Perspective
  • 2020
  • Al Naqvi
  • John Wiley & Sons,
An artificial intelligence revolution is sweeping through the world. Auditors and forensic accountants in firms of all sizes and types are trying to understand what it means for them. Many want to explore how to build plans for total intelligent automation to move their companies forward into the new AI economy. Many have recognized the imminent need for augmenting skills because of increasing automation. The recognition that the AI economy will be led by business professionals is finally sinking in. But auditors, accountants, finance professionals, and forensic accountants must develop a deep...
Exclusive BVB insights: data and analysis on UK private company multiples
  • 2021
  • Business Valuation Benchmarks
  • Business Valuation Benchmarks
Independent analysts, from BVB Ltd, have collated and interpreted transactions data involving private companies. The result is an in-depth overview of transaction multiples paid for UK private companies for the year ended December 2020 (previous edition are also available). Multiples are available for the following sectors and for further sub-sectors: Consumer discretionary; Consumer staples; Energy; Financials (excluding banks); Healthcare; Industrials; Industrials – services; Information technology; Materials; Telecommunications; Utilities. The library can supply further information (by phon...
Exclusive Better business decisions using cost modeling
  • 2012
  • Victor E. Sower
  • Business Expert Press
Discusses the benefits of using cost modeling for procurement, operations, and supply chain professionals. A variety of external and internal cost models are covered which have the potential to significantly reduce costs for an organisation. Includes examples of how organisations have saved substantial amounts through the use of cost modeling.
Exclusive Building financial models: the complete guide to designing, building, and applying projection models
  • 2018
  • John S. Tjia
  • McGraw Hill Education
Teaches how to build financial models using spreadsheets. You will be led through the steps of building an integrated financial statement model that can serve as the core for transactions or analysis in the LBO, M&A, business valuation model or credit underwriting space. This third edition includes additional materials on valuation analysis and sections on scenarios and sensitivity analysis through the use of Data Tables.
Exclusive Business accounting UK GAAP: volume 1
  • 2008
  • Frank Wood, Alan Sangster
  • Pearson
This first volume includes chapters on double entry bookkeeping, financial statements, receipts and payments accounts, income and expenditure accounts, cash management, company accounts, accounting for goodwill, an introduction to financial analysis, international GAAP, and an introduction to management accounting.
Exclusive Business accounting: volume 1 (10th edition)
  • 2005
  • Frank Wood, Alan Sangster
  • FT Prentice Hall
A textbook for students on bookkeeping and accounting. Provides a clear and straight forward introduction to the core techniques and skills required to fully understand the foundations of financial accounting. Includes worked examples for each topic, as well as self assessment material, so that students can monitor their own progress and understanding. Volume 1 covers: introduction to double entry bookkeeping; the financial statements of sole traders; books of original entry; adjustments for financial statements; special accounting procedures; partnership accounts and company accounts; an in...
Exclusive Business accounting: volume 1 (13th edition)
  • 2015
  • Frank Wood, Alan Sangster
  • FT Prentice Hall
A textbook for students on bookkeeping and accounting. Provides a straightforward introduction to the foundations of financial accounting. Includes worked examples for each topic and self-assessment material. Volume 1 covers: introduction to financial accounting; the financial statements of sole traders; books of original entry; computerised accounting; adjustments for financial statements; special accounting procedures; partnership accounts and company accounts; an introduction to financial analysis; and an introduction to management accounting.
Exclusive CFO insights: achieving high performance through finance business process outsourcing
  • 2004
  • Stewart Clements, Michael Donnellan
  • John Wiley and Son
This title gives practical advice and strategies for Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and answers questions CFOs may have . Features advice from CFOs, original research in-depth case studies , and best practice data and analysis.
Exclusive CFO insights: enabling high performance through leading practices for finance ERP
  • 2006
  • Cristian C. Wulf
  • Wiley
Examines the end-to-end business processes that enable leading practices in finance. Includes the business process of Record to Report (key closing and reporting cycles), Procure to Pay, Acquire to Retire (Asset Lifecycle), Order to Cash, and Tax Management. In each chapter, the authors discuss process, technology, and organisational considerations - all components of high performance. ERP in a Shared Services environment; Enterprise Performance Management; and Total Cost of Ownership are also explored.
Exclusive Commercial property valuation: methods and case studies
  • 2019
  • Giacomo Morri, Paolo Benedetto
  • John Wiley & Sons
A practical guide to the best approaches for commercial real estate value assessment, covering all key elements of commercial property valuation, including valuation queries, real estate valuation report structure, market analysis, capitalization and discount rates estimation.
Exclusive Company valuation under IFRS
  • 2008
  • Nick Antill | Kenneth Lee
  • Harriman House
A guide to interpreting and forecasting accounts using International Financial Reporting Standards.
Exclusive Complete CFO handbook: from accounting to accountability, The
  • 2008
  • Frank J. Fabozzi | Pamela Peterson Drake | Ralph S. Polimeni
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book contains chapters on obtaining funding, corporate risk management, business strategy and financial planning, performance measurement and transfer pricing, asset management, cost management and finance function effectiveness.
Exclusive Controller's function: the work of the managerial accountant, The
  • 2011
  • Steven M. Bragg
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book aims to provide the management accountant with facts and guidance for all aspects of their role. It contains chapters on the role of the management accountant, internal control, strategic business planning, long-range financial planning, cash and investments, operational accounting, SEC filings, performance measurement, financial analysis, cost management, taxation, and selecting a financial information system.
Exclusive Corporate finance: the core (global edition)
  • 2017
  • Jonathan B. Berk, Peter M. DeMarzo
  • Pearson
A text book designed for MBA/graduate students taking a course in corporate finance. Split into 6 parts : Introduction; Time, money and interests rates; Valuing projects and firms; Risk and return; Capital structure; Advanced valuation
Exclusive Corporate finance: theory and practice
  • 2005
  • Pierre Vernimmen | Pascal Quiry | Maurizio Dallocchio | Yann Le Fur | Antonio Salvi
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book aims to be a comprehensive guide to corporate finance for students and practicing corporate financiers. It covers the basics of financial analysis, the theory of corporate valuation, the major types of financial securities, and the various elements of financial management (including equity capital, M&A, bankruptcy and cash flow management).
Exclusive Cost accounting for dummies
  • 2013
  • Kenneth W. Boyd
  • John Wiley & Sons
The easy way to get a grip on cost accounting. Critical in supporting strategic business decisions and improving profitability, cost accounting is arguably one of the most important functions in the accounting field. Provides in-depth explanations and reviews of the essential concepts you'll encounter in your studies: how to define costs as direct materials, direct labor, fixed overhead, variable overhead, or period costs; how to use allocation methodology to assign costs to products and services; how to evaluate the need for capital expenditures; how to design a budget model that forecast cha...
Exclusive Cost of capital: applications and examples
  • 2014
  • Shannon P. Pratt, Roger J. Grabowski
  • John Wiley & Sons
This title gives background and current thinking on the development and uses of rates of return on capital. This edition gives an emphasis to practical application and case studies. Chapters include: Cost of capital basics; Estimating the cost of equity capital; Estimating the overall cost of capital; Corporate Finance Officers - using cost of capital data; Case studies; Advice to practitioners.
Exclusive Creating value in a regulated world: CFO perspectives
  • 2006
  • Cedric Read
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book is built around a series of interviews with top finance executives. It contains chapters on the current and future regulatory regimes, driving growth and innovation through financial management, business partnering, leveraging risk and regulation, and becoming a sustainable business.
Exclusive Derivatives: markets, valuation, and risk management
  • 2006
  • Robert E. Whaley
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book contains chapters on derivatives markets, corporate valuations, and the various kinds of derivatives. It argues that derivatives can be a powerful tool in business risk management.
Exclusive Discounted cash flow: a theory of the valuation of firms
  • 2006
  • Andreas Loeffler, Lutz Kruschwitz
  • Wiley
The book offers a new theoretical path to corporate valuation. Using detailed economic research, it endeavours to reconcile conventional cost–of–capital valuation models with state–pricing (or ′risk–neutral′ pricing) models.
Exclusive Early stage valuation: a fair value perspective
  • 2020
  • Antonella Puca
  • Wiley
Addresses significant developments in the valuation of early stage enterprises at fair value with emphasis on practical applications--features a broad selection of case studies of early stage valuation. The book provides a comprehensive review of the current methodologies used to value Early Stage Enterprises (ESEs) at fair value for financial reporting, investment, and mergers and acquisitions. This authoritative guide examines how to apply market analysis, discounted cash flows models, statistical techniques such as option pricing models (OPM) and Monte Carlo simulation, the venture capital...
Exclusive Excel models for business and operations management
  • 2005
  • John F. Barlow
  • John Wiley and Sons
The book aims to be a practical guide to financial modelling with Microsoft Excel. It includes chapters on using a spreadsheet to manage a budget, financial statements and cash flows, and analysis of financial models. It is written for people working to US GAAP, but also aims to make the skills transferable to other financial modelling systems.
Exclusive Exit right: achieving a golden goodbye by realising the maximum value for your business
  • 2004
  • Barrie Pearson
  • Thorogood
The book provides business management advice on when to sell a business, choosing professional advisers, grooming a company for sale, valuation of a business for sale, finding buyers, negotiation skills, legal completion, and eliminating losses before selling.
Exclusive Finance director's handbook
  • 2007
  • Glynis Morris | Sonia McKay | Andrea Oates
  • CIMA Publishing
Guidance on finance function effectiveness for managers. It includes chapters on all aspects of finance management, including accounting, business management, and corporate governance.
Exclusive Financial and management accounting: an introduction
  • 2019
  • Pauline Weetman
  • Pearson Education Limited
This book uses the international Conceptual Framework (as revised in 2018) and International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) as its primary focus. It enables students in their early stages of study to understand and analyse the published annual reports and financial statements of our largest businesses and public sector institutions. IFRS are now applied in many aspects of government, local authority and other public sector accounting. Where relevant it also refers to the approach used in small and medium-sized businesses where the traditions of UK GAAP continue to be applied.
Exclusive Financial forecasting, analysis and modelling: a framework for long-term forecasting
  • 2015
  • Michael Samonas
  • Wiley
Provides a complete framework of long-term financial forecasts in a practical and accessible way, helping finance professionals include uncertainty in their planning and budgeting process.
Exclusive Financial management: an introduction
  • 1999
  • Jim McMenamin
  • Routledge
Includes chapters on the scope and environment of financial management, core concepts, financial analysis and performance valuation, strategic financial decision-making, financial planning and control, and short-term financial management. The appendices contain financial tables and answers to the set exercises.
Exclusive Financial modeling for decision making: using MS-Excel in accounting and finance
  • 2020
  • Ron Messer
  • Emerald Publishing Limited
This book provides accounting students in post-secondary institutions with an advanced level understanding of how to use MS-Excel. It reflects real-life applications of this important analytical tool, which has become the industry standard for spreadsheet software. The text focuses on using MS-Excel in situations encountered by accounting and finance students and professionals; these are contextualized in terms of the past, present, and future and reflect a typical operating cycle, which includes initial planning, followed by exercising control, and is completed when feedback is received.
Exclusive Financial modeling in Excel for Dummies
  • 2017
  • Danielle Stein Fairhurst
  • John Wiley & Sons
A beginner's guide to financial modeling using Microsoft Excel - this book shows you how to harness Excel's capabilities to determine profitability, develop budgetary projections, model depreciation, project costs, value assets and more. You'll learn the fundamental best practices and know-how of financial modeling, and how to put them to work for your business and your clients.
Exclusive Financial modeling in Excel for dummies
  • 2022
  • Danielle Stein Fairhurst
  • John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This books provides practical hands-on exercises to help you build powerful models from scratch, and to work with existing financial models in Excel. Includes chapters on tools and techniques for financial modeling, applying scenarios, charting and presenting model output, building an integrated financial statements model, discounted cash flow valuation, and budgeting for capital expenditure and depreciation.
Exclusive Financial modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel
  • 2007
  • John Charnes
  • John Wiley and Sons
Guide to financial modelling using business software, including Oracle Crystal Ball and Microsoft Excel. It includes chapters on financial forecasting, modelling financial statements, and other modelling functions available in Excel.
Exclusive Financial planning using Excel: forecasting, planning and budgeting techniques
  • 2009
  • Sue Nugus
  • Elsevier
Aimed at people who already have some knowledge of Microsoft Excel. It looks at spreadsheet skills for different types of planning, and contains detailed sections on business planning, forecasting and managing budgets with business software.
Exclusive Financial risk manager handbook
  • 2009
  • Philip Jorion
  • John Wiley and Sons
Contains sections on quantitative analysis, financial markets and financial products, and the various kinds of risk management. It includes chapters on the financial modelling of risk, credit risk, and market risk. Each chapter contains examples and exercises for students.
Exclusive Financial valuation: applications and models
  • 2011
  • James R. Hitchner
  • John Wiley and Sons
Presents the views of 30 valuation professionals on business valuation concepts and applications. It discusses business valuation in various different industries, and takes into account FASB requirements.
Exclusive Forensic accounting
  • 2015
  • Robert J. Rufus, Laura Savory Miller, William Hahn
  • Pearson
An introduction to forensic accounting concepts and techniques, designed for the benefit of students and practitioners. Includes chapters on gathering evidence, fraud, fundamentals of business valuation, and a sample engagement letter.
Exclusive Fundamentals of transfer pricing: general topics and specific transactions
  • 2021
  • Michael Lang, Giammarco Cotani, Raffaele Petruzzi
  • Wolters Kluwer Law International
This guide explores the practical application of transfer pricing rules, offering examples and international judicial precedents. Chapters cover transfer pricing methods, approaches to prevent and resolve disputes, documentation, attribution of profits to permanent establishments, and specific transactions (such as services, financing, intangibles and business restructurings).
Exclusive Get to grips with budgets: how to take the stress out of working with numbers
  • 2005
  • Bloomsbury
Drawing up a budget for the first time, understanding different types of budgeting, budgeting costs and payments, cash management, balance sheets, and reading a profit and loss account.
Exclusive Growing business handbook: inspiration and advice from successful entrepreneurs and fast growing UK companies, The
  • 2009
  • Adam Jolly
  • Kogan Page
The book contains chapters on business planning for growth, gaining market share, people management, cash management, information technology for businesses, SMEs, operations management, international expanision, mergers and acquisitions, and obtaining growth capital.
Exclusive Handbook of global corporate treasury
  • 2013
  • Rajiv Rajendra
  • John Wiley & Sons
A complete guide to operating a corporate treasury from a global perspective. For CFOs and treasurers looking to re-align their treasuries with the growth of the global firm, bankers who seek to maximize the value they create for clients, treasury and finance firm employees, and even finance students, this book provides an easy-to-read approach to this exciting and increasingly complex world.
Exclusive Hands-on financial modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365: build your own practical financial models for effective forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis
  • 2022
  • Shmuel Oluwa
  • Packt
Financial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. This book explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel. Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for building financial models.
Exclusive Hands-on financial modeling with Microsoft Excel 2019: build practical models for forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis using Excel 2019
  • 2019
  • Shmuel Oluwa
  • Packt
This book will help you understand financial modeling concepts using Excel, and provides you with an overview of the steps you should follow to build an integrated financial model. Later chapters cover using absolute and relative business valuation techniques and testing your model for reasonableness and accuracy, including creating a simple Monte Carlo simulation.
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