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Preface
Do you know how to accomplish these important business tasks?
- Understand financial statements.
- Measure liquidity of a business.
- Analyze business profitability.
- Differentiate between regular income and extraordinary items.
- Predict future bankruptcy for an enterprise.
- Prepare a budget.
- Do a break-even analysis.
- Measure productivity.
- Figure out return on investment.
- Compute the cost of capital.
- Put together a business plan.
- Legitimately minimize income taxes payable by you or your business.
- Decide whether your business should be a limited partnership, a C or S
cor poration, or some other t y pe of entit y. - Take your company public.
- Manage foreign currency exposure.
- Evaluate a merger or acquisition target.
- Serve as a director of a corporation.
- Build a successful e-business.
- Understand and use financial derivatives.
- Use information technology for competitive advantage.
- Value a business.
These are some of the key topics explained in this book. It is a book de-
signed to help you learn the basics in finance and accounting, without incur-
ring the considerable time and expense of a formal MBA program.