The Executive's Guide to Financial Management

Improving Risk, Strategy, and Financial Performance
2013. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-230-34195-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 421 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

A guide to expand and enhance the tools available to financial professionals to solve problems effectively, efficiently and to strengthen accounting controls. This is the result of an extensive effort to develop an innovative, highly practical approach to the task of improving financial management and cash flow.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Norton, D.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensfinanzen Betriebliches Rechnungswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Risk Management and Competitive Strategy Assess Senior Management andRelationships Assess Financial Performance Analyze Business Processes, then Optimize Manage Cash Flow Manage Assets, Liabilities, and Equity Improve Profits Strategic Plans, Budgets, and Financial Models International Financial Reporting Standards Systems: From Albatross to Advantage Work Smarter Develop, Sell, and Implement an Improvement Plan Paths to Success and Paths to Failure Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

DEWEY NORTON has been the CFO and corporate controller of numerous international public companies in technology and manufacturing where he has led financial turnarounds, support of exponential growth, acquisitions, divestitures, formation of joint ventures, SEC reporting, negotiation of large scale loan agreements and raising equity. He has worked at Ford Motor Company, GKN, Baldwin Filters, Avista Laboratories, Robert Half Management Resources and several entrepreneurial companies. He has twice been named one of the five best managers worldwide in a NYSE company and most valuable employee of a pre IPO company. In addition to his work in finance and accounting, he has also led several successful implementations of enterprise wide business systems and published an article on how to do this. He has led supply chain management and human resources. Dewey is active in leadership of the profession in Financial Executives International where he has been President of the Los Angeles and Nebraska chapters, Vice Chairman of the international Committee on Finance and Information Technology, founder and for seven years editor of their Technology Survey for Financial Executives, Chairman of their international conference on business and technology, adviser to a Financial Executives Research Foundation study on data warehousing, and a member of the national Committee on (federal) Government Business. He has a BA and an MA from the University of Pennsylvania, USA and an MBA from Wharton School.