TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berman,Karen
AU  - Knight,Joe
AU  - Case,John
TI  - Financial intelligence for IT professionals: what you really need to know about the numbers 
T2  - Financial intelligence
SN  - 9781422131817
AV  - HD30 .F563 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard Business Press
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Finance
KW  - Management
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Preface : what is financial intelligence? --; The art of finance (and why it matters to IT) --; You can't always trust the numbers --; Spotting assumptions, estimates, and biases --; Why increase your financial intelligence? --; Toolbox : getting what you want; the players and what they do --; The (many) peculiarities of the income statement --; Profit is an estimate --; Cracking the code of the income statement --; Revenue : the issue is recognition --; Costs and expenses : no hard-and-fast rules --; The many forms of profit --; Toolbox : variance; percent calculations; line of sight --; The balance sheet reveals the most --; Understanding balance sheet basics --; Assets : more estimates and assumptions (except for cash) --; On the other side : liabilities and equity --; Why the balance sheet balances --; The income statement affects the balance sheet --; Toolbox : employees as assets; expenses vs.capital expenditures --; Cash is king --; Cash is a reality check --; Profit? cash (and you need both) --; The language of cash flow --; How cash connects with everything else --; Why cash matters --; Toolbox: free cash flow --; Ratios: learning what the numbers are really telling you --; The power of ratios --; Profitability ratios: the higher the better (mostly) --; Leverage ratios: the balancing act --; Liquidity ratios: can we pay our bills? --; Efficiency ratios: making the most of your assets --; Toolbox: ratios for the business; ratios for it; leading vs. lagging indicators; percent-of-sales analysis; ratio relationships --; How to calculate (and really understand) return on investment --; The building blocks of roi --; Figuring roi: the nitty-gritty --; Toolbox: the roi of an it project --; Applied financial intelligence: working capital management --; The magic of managing the balance sheet --; Your balance sheet levers --; Homing in on cash conversion --; Toolbox: understanding accounts- receivable aging --; Creating a financially intelligent it department (and organization) --; Financial literacy and corporate performance --; Financial literacy strategies --; Appendix: putting it into practice --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index --; About the authors; 2; b
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