Understanding Return on Investment

Sending an SOS when it comes to ROIs? Help is on the way . . . UNDERSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT Return on investment (ROI) plays a major role in business, but itcan be a difficult concept to grasp. Understanding Return onInvestment shows you how to better utilize this essential tool bysimplifying and clarifying all its important points. Thisinvaluable guide includes information on: * The effect of ROI on investment and disinvestment decisions * The various forms of ROI and how they provide different measuresfor evaluating investment activities * The relationship of ROI to ROE (return on equity) * The use of ROI in evaluating investment centers in adecentralized operation * How ROI is used to evaluate managers * The use of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in makinginvestment decisions If you use ROI, but are confused or unclear about some of itsdetails, you'll definitely profit from Understanding Return onInvestment, a complete guide to this all-important performanceindicator.

Business & Money

Friedlob, George T.

Plewa Jr., Franklin J.

Economics

wiley

Sending an SOS when it comes to ROIs? Help is on the way . . . UNDERSTANDING RETURN ON INVESTMENT Return on investment (ROI) plays a major role in business, but it can be a difficult concept to grasp. Understanding Return on Investment shows you how to better utilize this essential tool by simplifying and clarifying all its important points. This invaluable guide includes information on: * The effect of ROI on investment and disinvestment decisions * The various forms of ROI and how they provide different measures for evaluating investment activities * The relationship of ROI to ROE (return on equity) * The use of ROI in evaluating investment centers in a decentralized operation * How ROI is used to evaluate managers * The use of weighted average cost of capital (WACC) in making investment decisions If you use ROI, but are confused or unclear about some of its details, you'll definitely profit from Understanding Return on Investment, a complete guide to this all-important performance indicator.

Designed as the ideal tutor, refresher and reference source for the nonfinancial manager. Step-by-step guidance enables readers to quickly learn the basics of income statements, cash flow, ROI and budgeting. Details gross margins, production costs, overhead, allocations, net income and much more.

Understanding Income Statements: Finance Fundamentals for the Non-financial Manager

Accounting

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Designed as the ideal tutor, refresher and reference source for the nonfinancial manager. Step-by-step guidance enables readers to quickly learn the basics of income statements, cash flow, ROI and budgeting. Details gross margins, production costs, overhead, allocations, net income and much more.

Understanding Income Statements

Plewa, Franklin J.

Finance

Understanding Cash Flow (Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers Series)

PROFITS ARE AN OPINION, BUT CASH IS A FACT. Understanding CASH FLOW If the term "cash flow" has always remained uncomfortably vague in your mind, Understanding Cash Flow will give you, quickly and simply, a firm grasp of this crucial index of a company's health and direction. It covers, in detail, the process, the terminology, and the internal and external players in the flow of cash through a company. You'll learn: * The fundamentals of cash management and how it affects the quality of a company's earnings * How to read cash flow statements * How cash balances are analyzed and monitored--including internal controls over cash receipts and disbursements, plus bank account reconciliation and activity analysis * How to avoid the pitfalls of granting credit--evaluating customer credit, sources of credit information, and overall credit policy * How to prevent fraud and waste * And much more! Understanding Cash Flow is a part of the new Wiley series, Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers--designed to serve managers, owners, investors, students and others by explaining clearly and concisely what they need to know about important areas of cash flow management. Other titles in the series will cover income statements, return on investment, budgeting, and balance sheets.

As statements of a company's financial condition, balance sheetscontain information vital to owners, investors, and financialmanagers who are charged with assessing company performance. Oftencomplex and difficult to interpret, balance sheets are nonethelessessential because they help pinpoint business problem areas.Understanding Balance Sheets explains in a clear and concise mannerall the major aspects of this important business tool, making ityours to implement easily and successfully. Written by two financial and accounting authorities, this hands-onworking reference enables you to understand a company's balancesheet within the context of its annual report. You'll find detailedinformation on: * Exactly what a balance sheet is, how it works, and how it's usedto increase profitability * The individual components: receivables, cash, inventory,long-lived assets, current payables, long-term debt, and equity * How these different elements relate to each other, how they comeinto being, and how they should be controlled in your business * How accounting data is created, accumulated, and used in thedevelopment of financial statements Whether you're new to balance sheets, need a quick refresher, orrequire a knowledge that goes beyond the basics, this guide has itall. Understanding Balance Sheets is a thorough, accessiblereference that you can't afford to be without if you need to get ahandle on this essential financial tool. Get a handle on balance sheets with this comprehensive referencethat gives you the basics and beyond From the authors who brought you indispensable guides to suchfinancial fundamentals as cash flow, income statements, and returnon investment comes a book that clarifies and explains theintricacies of another important tool: the balance sheet. Coveringall its major aspects, Friedlob and Plewa give you a broadunderstanding of its individual elements, the related disclosurescontained in an annual report, and the methods used to analyze acompany's balance sheet. Here's where to turn for valuableinformation on: * Receivables, inventories, intangibles, short-term investments,and other components of a balance sheet * How current liabilities create spontaneous financing when abusiness grows * General purpose financial statements and widely acceptedaccounting principles * The time value of money * Analyzing the balance sheet through comparative and ratioanalysis Straightforward, comprehensive, and easy to follow, this is theguide you'll want for a complete overview of this vital businesstool.

Understanding Balance Sheets

Biography & History

Shows how managers can structure their activities and investment base to obtain the highest possible ROI. * Examines essential concepts of ROI, including the advantages of using certain techniques and the limitations associated with them. * Shows how to calculate and use EVA, MVA and other residual measures. * Suggests procedures to evaluate ROIT and other high-tech investment options. * Written in a user-friendly style with many real-world examples and best practices.

Essentials of Corporate Performance Measurement

Management & Leadership

John Wiley&Sons

An easy-to-use guide to financial analysis Essentials of Financial Analysis shows how to analyze a company as a prospective investment. This one-stop resource includes a basic introduction to accounting; shows how to use ratio analysis to evaluate a company's profit, liquidity, and solvency; and provides actual financial statements of a variety of companies as illustrations.

Essentials of Financial Analysis

Schleifer, Lydia L. F.

Schleifer, L.F.

Offers advice on maximizing rate of return by discussing such issues as using turnover and margin, the profitability in cost centers, the Du Pont Method to increase ROI, using residual income, and understanding the effect of risk preference on decisions

Keys to Improving Your Return on Investments (BARRON'S BUSINESS KEYS)

Plewa, Franklin

B E S Pub Co

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Understanding Return on Investment

Understanding Return on Investment

Understanding Income Statements: Finance Fundamentals for the Non-financial Manager

Understanding Income Statements

Understanding Cash Flow (Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers Series)

Understanding Cash Flow (Finance Fundamentals for Nonfinancial Managers Series)

Understanding Balance Sheets

Essentials of Corporate Performance Measurement

Essentials of Financial Analysis

Keys to Improving Your Return on Investments (BARRON'S BUSINESS KEYS)