Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management (2005-2006)

The Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions. The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence. A free companion CD-ROM contains helpful practice aids and searchable PDFs of the book chapters for your convenience. The 2005-2006 edition of the Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management contains 60 chapters covering the following topic areas: -- Responsibilities of the Controller -- SEC Reporting -- Controller's Reports -- Computer Applications, including chapters on data base management, the client/server environment, and using computers in financial decision making -- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, including financial statement reporting, accounting and disclosures, interim and segmental reporting, and more -- Management Accounting, including product costing systems and classifications, joint products and by-products, analysis of cost behavior, cost-volume-profit analysis and leverage, cost allocation, contribution margin analysis for nonroutine decisions, budgeting and financial modeling, using variance analysis, improving management performance, ABC, JIT, TQM, quantitative applications in corporate financial management, and more -- Internal Auditing and Control, including internal audit of financial statement accounts, the internal audit function and internal control, and forensic accounting --Financial Analysis, including financial statement analysis, managing analysis of operations, controlling revenue and costs, managing and analyzing risk, reengineering and outsourcing the business, derivative products and reengineering, and more -- Management of Assets, including management of working capital and cash, accounts receivable, and inventory -- Investments, including corporate investments in securities and portfolio diversification and risk management -- Financing the Business, including short- and long-term financing, term loans and leasing, warrants and convertibles, cost of capital and capital structure decisions, and more -- Tax Preparation and Planning, including payroll taxes and how taxes affect business decisions -- Mergers, Divestitures and Failure, including business strategies and shareholder value analysis, financial and earnings forecasting, cash flow forecasting, forecasting financial distress, and more.