Handbook of Financial Analysis forecasting and modeling

The Handbook of Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Modeling is a practical guide of proven techniques, strategies, and approaches that are successfully used by professionals who diagnose and manage the financial and operating health of businesses. It illustrates and explains the time-tested techniques that help analyze financial decisions. The book explains what financial tools and techniques to use and how to apply them. Computational examples and illustration guide the reader through each presentation. Proven checklists, ratios, formulas and statistical techniques are clearly presented to help the reader to make smart decisions in all areas of financial management and operations. The revised edition of this classic gives you every forecasting formula and modeling technique needed to quickly and accurately analyze your entire business operation. You’ll find proven techniques to: • Evaluate proposals for profit potential • Improve short- and long-range forecasting • Effectively manage cash, accounts receivable, and working capital so you know that you money is working as hard as it can • Measure how vulnerable you company really is to economic development like recession or inflation Numerous charts, graphs, and worksheets give you real-world examples and a host of other practical tools. A companion CD-ROM gives you models and proven formulas you can use to: • Evaluate your company’s financial health and operating performance • Analyze investment proposals and make accurate investment decisions • Decrease working capital, boost cast flow, and slash accounts receivable • Bulletproof M&A decisions • Prepare successful financial modeling, including risk-return analysis, optimization models, sensitivity analysis, and goal programming • Track marketing effectiveness • Spot problem processes, departments or divisions in time to take corrective action