Smart financial management : the essential reference for the successful small business

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Title:

Smart financial management : the essential reference for the successful small business

Author:

Sihler, William W., 1937-

ISBN:

9780814407899

Personal Author:

Sihler, William W., 1937-

Publication Information:

New York : American Management Association, c2004.

Physical Description:

viii, 280 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Contents:

1. Basic frameworks for financial management -- 2. Legal aspects of financing startup, early-stage, and emerging businesses -- 3. Ratios as analytical tools -- 4. Forecasting, budgeting, and cash management -- 5. Managing accounts receivable -- 6. Managing inventories -- 7. Capital budgeting and corporate valuation -- 8. Basic capital-structure decisions -- 9. Nonequity financing for the company -- 10. Equity financing for the company -- 11. Exiting the unsuccessful business -- 12. Exiting the successful business -- 13. Summing up : smart financial management.

Subject Term:

Small business -- Finance.

Added Author:

Crawford, Richard, 1946-

Davis, Henry A.

Copies:

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Summary

This useful guide helps owners and managers of small businesses solve every day financial dilemmas and avoid potential problems.

Long on practical guidance while refreshingly short on math, you will learn valuable and practical financial analysis techniques, as well as how to project future financial needs and identify possible sources of funding; manage receivables, inventory and equipment investments; and how to structure and develop the business soundly and legally.

In Smart Financial Management, you will find:

an understanding of the financial challenges unique to a growing enterprise -- and how to meet them ways to improve communications with financial and legal advisors methods to identify new sources of equity and nonequity capital

With a field-focused methodology and user-friendly tools, Smart Financial Management will help any small business manage its requirements more effectively.