CFO Fundamentals: Your Quick Guide to Internal Controls, Financial Reporting, IFRS, Web 2.0, Cloud Computing, and More
- 11h 9m
- Allison I. Shim, Jae K. Shim, Joel G. Siegel
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2012
The thorough reference that goes wherever you go
The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.
- Covers all major developments in finance and accounting every CFO needs to know about including IFRS, Web-based planning, and ranging from financial reporting and internal control to financial decision making for shareholder value maximization
- Includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports
- Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book, as well as coverage of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and its impact on financial reporting, XBRL reporting, risk management and disaster recovery, Web-based planning and budgeting, Web 2.0, cloud computing, and environmental costing
Simplifying day-to-day work in dozens of critical areas, The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy chief financial officer (CFO), controller, treasurer, financial director, budgeting director, and other financial professionals in public practice and private industry.
About the Authors
JAE K. SHIM, PHD, has authored or coauthored more than fifty professional and college accounting books. He is CEO of Delta Consulting Co., a financial consulting and training firm, and has been a consultant to commercial and nonprofit organizations for over thirty years.
JOEL G. SIEGEL, PHD, CPA, is the author of over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. Dr. Siegel has acted as consultant in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person-Wolinsky CPA Review.
ALLISON I. SHIM, MS, is CFO of Delta Consulting Co. She is a finance expert and a PhD candidate at the University of California, Irvine.
In this Book
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What This Book Will Do for You
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Chief Financial Officer's Role and Reports
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Securities and Exchange Commission Filings
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Financial Statement Reporting—The Income Statement
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Financial Statement Reporting—The Balance Sheet
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Statement of Cash Flows
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Accounting and Disclosures
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Key Financial Accounting Areas
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Interim and Segmental Reporting
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Cost Management and Analysis
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Cost-Volume-Profit Analysis and Leverage
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Short-Term Decisions
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Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting
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Risk Management
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Capital Budgeting and Real Options
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The What and Why of Responsibility Accounting
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Control of Profit Centers
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Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing
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How to Analyze and Improve Corporate Profitability and Shareholder Value
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Information Technology and IT Systems
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Working Capital and Cash Management
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Management of Accounts Receivable
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Inventory Management
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Management of Payables
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Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing
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Long-Term Financing
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Warrants and Convertibles
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Cost of Capital and Capital Structure Decisions
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Dividend Policy
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Financial Management of Multinational Corporations
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Financial Statement Analysis
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Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs
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Insurance and Legal Considerations
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Reading Economic Indicators
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Corporate Investments in Securities
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Tax Factors in Financial Decision Making
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Mergers and Acquisitions
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Divestiture
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Forecasting Corporate Financial Distress
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Failure and Reorganization
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Valuation of Bonds and Stocks
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Financial Statement Analysis—Key Financial Ratios and Metrics for Nonprofits
