Use smart accounting to maximize profits and minimize confusion
Whether you're a small business owner or just want to understand your 401(k) statements, this new edition of Accounting For Dummies helps you get a handle on all those columns of numbers. With fully up-to-date accounting basics for business and personal finances, this book helps you to balance your books and stay in the black.
Discover how to:
Make sense of bookkeeping basics
Read a financial statement
Manage budgets for a better bottom line
Analyze business strengths and weaknesses
Evaluate accounting methods and business structures

Accounting for Dummies 3rd Ed. CD

Business & Money

Tracy, John A.

Business Culture

HarperAudio

How to Read a Financial Report Seventh Edition Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This Seventh Edition of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through the language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. The book helps you get a sure-handed grip on the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business. Here's what's new in the Seventh Edition: <ul>
<li> Discussion of the transition to international accounting and financial reporting standards </li> <li> A streamlined centerpiece exhibit used throughout the book to explain connections between the three financial statements </li> <li> An integrated section on analyzing profit, cash flow, and solvency for investors, lenders, and managers (now Part Two in this edition) </li> <li> Reflection on financial reporting and auditing in the post-Enron era </li> </ul>
"What distinguishes Tracy's efforts from other manuals is an innovative structure that visually ties together elements of the balance sheet and income statement by tracing where and how a line item in one affects an entry in another." —Inc. "An excellent job of showing how to separate the wheat from the chaff without choking in the process." —The Miami Herald "A wonderful book organized logically and written clearly. For a Fool to be an effective investor, she has to know her way around a financial statement. This book will help you develop that skill. It's the clearest presentation of many accounting concepts that this Fool has seen." —Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

Finance

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Not everyone is cut out to be a professional accountant, but those who want to move up the corporate ladder know that they need to master the essentials of accounting. Understanding Business Accounting For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes truly light work of the financial fundamentals that many businesspeople try to bluff their way through every day. 
The book will show you how to evaluate profit margins, establish budgets, control profit and cash flow, stem losses, manage inventory, make wise financial decisions, survive an audit, and use the latest computer technology to help you manage the bottom line. This updated edition also includes the latest information on International Financial Reporting Standards, capital budgeting, and break even, plus new advice on how to find financial facts and read company accounts. New sections include links to a number of key business spreadsheets and a new chapter on financing your business.

Understanding Business Accounting for Dummies, Second UK Edition

Barrow, Colin

Accounting

For Dummies

How to Read a Financial Report [Apr 09, 1980] Tracy, John A.

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Cash Flow and Other Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

Economics

John Wiley&Sons

As a busy business manager, would you like to spend less time budgeting, and learn more from the budgeting you do? If you answer yes, then Budgeting à la Carte is the book for you. 
Most books on budgeting advocate a comprehensive, "seven course dinner" budgeting system. But unless you're the CEO of a major corporation, this is too much information—maybe way too much. What you need instead is Budgeting à la Carte: a menu of budgeting options that allows you to pick and choose only those items that suit your taste, appetite, and business situation. Explained in detail by bestselling financial author John A. Tracy, this comprehensive resource covers the full range of budgeting procedures, including: <ul>
<li>Income Statements</li> <li>Balance Sheets</li> <li>Operating Ratios</li> <li>Profitability</li> <li>Cash Flow</li> <li>Price and Volume Tradeoffs</li> <li>Cost Allocations</li> <li>Capital Investments</li> <li>And more . . .</li> </ul>
Budgeting, Tracy shows, is not an end in itself. It's a set of tools you can use to maximize financial performance and position. With Budgeting à la Carte, you'll control the tools, and you can decide just how much and what kind of budgeting is right for your business. Also by John A. Tracy HOW TO READ A FINANCIAL REPORT For MANAGERS, ENTREPRENEURS, LENDERS, LAWYERS, AND INVESTORS "[If] you would like to have a minimal understanding of the numbers that make up a balance sheet, income, and cash flow statement . . . then How to Read a Financial Report might be just what you are looking for. Mr. Tracy's book explains in plain English the meaning of the major terms used in financial statements . . ."—The Wall Street Journal

Budgeting a LA Carte: Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers (Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers Series)

Management & Leadership

Also by John A. Tracy 
HOW TO READ A FINANCIAL REPORT For MANAGERS, ENTREPRENEURS, LENDERS, LAWYERS, AND INVESTORS "[If] you would like to have a minimal understanding of the numbers that make up a balance sheet, income, and cash flow statement . . . then How to Read a Financial Report might be just what you are looking for. Mr. Tracy's book explains in plain English the meaning of the major terms used in financial statements . . ."—The Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Tracy's efforts from other manuals is an innovative structure that visually ties together elements of the balance sheet and income statement by tracing where and how a line item in one affects an entry in the other."—Inc. magazine "An excellent job of showing how to separate the wheat from the chaff without choking in the process."—Miami Herald As a busy business manager, would you like to spend less time budgeting, and learn more from the budgeting you do? If you answer yes, then Budgeting à la Carte is the book for you. Most books on budgeting advocate a comprehensive, "seven course dinner" budgeting system. But unless you're the CEO of a major corporation, this is too much information—maybe way too much. What you need instead is Budgeting à la Carte: a menu of budgeting options that allows you to pick and choose only those items that suit your taste, appetite, and business situation. Explained in detail by bestselling financial author John A. Tracy, this comprehensive resource covers the full range of budgeting procedures, including: <ul>
<li>Income Statements</li> <li>Balance Sheets</li> <li>Operating Ratios</li> <li>Profitability</li> <li>Cash Flow</li> <li>Price and Volume Tradeoffs</li> <li>Cost Allocations</li> <li>Capital Investments</li> <li>And more . . .</li> </ul>
Budgeting, Tracy shows, is not an end in itself. It's a set of tools you can use to maximize financial performance and position. With Budgeting à la Carte, you'll control the tools, and you can decide just how much and what kind of budgeting is right for your business.

Budgeting a La Carte: Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers

wiley

Numbers are the language of business. This book helps you make sense of them--fast. John Tracy is a master at pulling the meaningful figures out of the pile of numbers generated by the accounting department. Here he offers a quick review of both the basic financials as well as more advanced accounting tools, including * Income statements and cash flow statements * Budgeting and evaluating business investment performance * Capital investment, operating ratios, benchmarking tools, and more Readers will not only understand the theory behind all of these topics but see how to apply them in real situations. JOHN A. TRACY (Boulder, Colorado) is a professor of accounting at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of the bestselling How to Read a Financial Statement which has sold over 100,000 copies.

The Fast Forward MBA in Finance (Fast Forward MBA Series)

The author is well-renowned and highly successful. * Figures and examples are revised and spreadsheet readytemplates are provided. * Offers quick tips and cutting-edge ideas. * Totally revised new edition of a highly successful book.

The Fast Forward MBA in Finance

Lurking somewhere amidst all the figures in a financial report is vitally important information about where a company has been and where it is headed. But without a guide to isolate and interpret those numbers, the dizzying array of columns and rows doesn't add up to a hill of beans. That's why thousands of professionals and savvy individuals have referred to this bestselling resource that shows anyone how to make sense of all those numbers. Updated throughout, this edition features new information on tax reform, depreciation methods, spotting fraudulent reporting, and recent FASB rulings. Also, all exhibits have been made easier to follow. 
"If you would like to have a minimal understanding of the numbers that make up a balance sheet, income, and cash flow statement . . . then How to Read a Financial Report might be just what you are looking for. Mr. Tracy's book explains in plain English the meaning of the major terms used in financial statements." —The Wall Street Journal "What distinguishes Tracy's efforts from other manuals is an innovative structure that visually ties together elements of the balance sheet and income statement by tracing where and how a line item in one affects an entry in another." —Inc. magazine "An excellent job of showing how to separate the wheat from the chaff without choking in the process." —Miami Herald "A wonderful book-organized logically and written clearly. For a Fool to be an effective investor, she has to know her way around a financial statement. This book will help you develop that skill. It's the clearest presentation of many accounting concepts that this Fool has seen." —Selena Maranjian, The Motley Fool

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Accounting for Dummies 3rd Ed. CD

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

Understanding Business Accounting for Dummies, Second UK Edition

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Cash Flow and Other Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

Budgeting a LA Carte: Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers (Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers Series)

Budgeting a La Carte: Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers

The Fast Forward MBA in Finance (Fast Forward MBA Series)

The Fast Forward MBA in Finance

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers

How to Read a Financial Report: Wringing Vital Signs Out of the Numbers