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BL
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1009541
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b763911
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| Main Entry
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Barrow, Colin.
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| Title & Author
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Practical financial management : : a guide to budgets, balance sheets and business finance /\ Colin Barrow.
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| Edition Statement
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7th ed.
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Kogan Page,, 2008.
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| Series Statement
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Sunday Times business development series
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (xxv, 196 pages) :: illustrations (some color).
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| ISBN
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0749455012
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: 9780749455019
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0749452730
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9780749452735
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| Contents
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Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 Assembling financial data -- 1 Keeping the books -- The accounts you have to keep -- Getting some help -- 2 The cash flow statement -- Why cash is king -- The structure of the cash flow statement -- Avoiding overtrading -- Estimating start-up cash requirements -- Cash flow spreadsheet tools -- 3 The profit-and-loss account -- The difference between profit and cash -- Structuring the profit-and-loss account -- Dealing with debtors and creditors -- Handling depreciation -- Cost of goods sold -- Profit and loss for a service business -- Profit-and-loss spreadsheet tool -- 4 The balance sheet -- A personal experience -- The public picture -- The structure of the business balance sheet -- The ground rules, concepts and conventions -- Accounting for stock -- Methods of depreciation -- The capital register -- Preparing a package of accounts -- Balance sheet and other online tools -- Part 2 Understanding the figures -- 5 Funding strategies, safety and performance -- Debt vs equity -- Using your own resources -- Borrowing money -- Getting an investor -- Going public -- Free money -- 6 Using ratios -- Levels of profit -- Working capital relationships -- Return on investment (ROI) -- Market tests -- Combined ratios -- Getting company accounts -- Ratio analysis spreadsheets -- 7 Costs, volume, pricing and profit decisions -- Adding up the costs -- The components of cost -- Break-even point -- Margin of safety -- Costing to meet profit objectives -- Costing for special orders -- Real-time internet pricing strategies -- Costing for business start-up -- Costing to identify unprofitable products and services -- Getting help with break-even -- 8 Improving performance -- Pricing for profit -- Reducing costs -- Squeezing working capital -- The profit-improvement programme -- Part 3 Figuring out the future -- 9 Revenue budgets -- Budgeting for a business -- Timescale and detail -- Objectives -- Market appreciation -- Forecasting sales -- Resources appreciation -- Key strategies and operating plans -- Setting the budget -- Budget guidelines -- Monitoring performance -- Flexing the budget -- Seasonality and trends -- Cash and capital budgets -- Building a budget model -- 10 Capital budgets -- Average return on capital employed(ARCE) -- Payback period -- Discounted cash flow -- Present value -- The profitability index -- Internal rate of return -- Risk and sensitivity analysis -- Dealing with inflation -- Appraising investments -- Some general factors in investment decisions -- Online capital budgeting calculator -- 11 Preparing a business plan -- Why you need a business plan -- Contents of the plan -- Tips on communicating the plan -- Part 4 Dealing with regulatory authorities -- 12 Computing taxes -- Sole traders and partnerships -- Company taxation -- Which structure is best? -- Minimizing taxes -- Dealing with employment taxes -- Value added tax (VAT) -- Surviving a tax investigation -- Help and advice with tax matters -- Finding a low-tax country -- 13 Alternative legal structures -- Their impact on financial procedures -- Sole traders -- Partnerships and l.
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A guide to financial planning and control for small businesses, which covers all the principles and problems, this edition reinforces essential points through the use of questions within each section. Beginning with an introduction to the key financial statements, it moves on to look at the tools of financial analysis.
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Business enterprises-- Finance.
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Small business-- Finance.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Corporate Finance.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Finance.
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Business enterprises-- Finance.
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Small business-- Finance.
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| Dewey Classification
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658.1592
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| LC Classification
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HG4027.7.B36 2008eb
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| Added Entry
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Barrow, Colin.
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