PPC's Guide to Preparing Financial Statements

PPC's Guide to Preparing Financial Statements
Author: Practitioners Publishing Co. Staff
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2004-11-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9780764627873

Contains technical guidance and practice aids for preparation of financial statements. Contains sample documents, addresses, GAAP issues on a statement by statement basis.

The Comprehensive Guide on How to Read a Financial Report

The Comprehensive Guide on How to Read a Financial Report
Author: John A. Tracy
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2014-01-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118820886

A comprehensive guide to reading and understanding financial reports Financial reports provide vital information to investors, lenders, and managers. Yet, the financial statements in a financial report seem to be written in a foreign language that only accountants can understand. This comprehensive version of How to Read a Financial Report breaks through that language barrier, clears away the fog, and offers a plain-English user's guide to financial reports. The book features new information on the move toward separate financial and accounting reporting standards for private companies, the emergence of websites offering financial information, pending changes in the auditor's report language and what this means to investors, and requirements for XBRL tagging in reporting to the SEC, among other topics. Makes it easy to understand what financial reports really say Updated to include the latest information financial reporting standards and regulatory changes Written by an author team with a combined 50-plus years of experience in financial accounting This comprehensive edition includes an ancillary website containing valuable additional resources With this comprehensive version of How to Read a Financial Report, investors will find everything they need to fully understand the profit, cash flow, and financial condition of any business.

The Business Owner's Guide to Reading and Understanding Financial Statements

The Business Owner's Guide to Reading and Understanding Financial Statements
Author: Lita Epstein
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2012-02-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118143515

Financial statements hold the key to a company's fiscal health—so learn to read them! In order to gauge a company's health—as well as the competition's—managers must know how to properly read and understand financial statements. The Business Owner's Guide to Reading and Understanding Financial Statements will introduce managers and business owners to various types of financial statements and explain why they are important. Serving as a desktop reference, especially for managers without a strong background in finance, this book will discuss the difference between internal and external financial statements and explain how they can be used for financial decision-making in order to avoid common missteps. Whether you're planning for major capital projects or simply managing the fiscal aspects of your department, this nontechnical, results-driven guide will arm you with the fundamentals to: Understand the budget process and why it is important Manage assets and track inventory Gauge profitability Monitor success throughout the year using internal reporting Set prices and make key cost decisions Financial statements are essential to determining a company's fiscal health. Understand where your company stands so that you can make informed decisions about its future.

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective and Award Winning Business Proposals

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective and Award Winning Business Proposals
Author: Jean Wilson Murray
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1601382340

The text covers the three key phases of a business proposal--preparation, writing, and presentation--and includes examples of different types and styles of business proposals, such as sales proposals to clients, letters and memos as business proposals, proposals to government entities, internal proposals to top management, and business plans as a special type of business proposal.

Corporate Communications for Executives

Corporate Communications for Executives
Author: Michael B. Goodman
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 350
Release: 1998-05-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1438404395

Communication becomes more complex as businesses compete in a global environment. The complexity brought on by an explosion in the number of tools for communication—computers, digital media, interactive corporate television, faxes, e-mail, the Internet—fuels the need for a corporation to consider its communications as central to its strategic plans. Corporate Communications for Executives looks closely at the professional practice of corporate communication. It offers numerous perspectives on ethics, science and society, employee motivation, corporate social responsibility, internal communication, global corporate communications, and communicating corporate cultures.

Corporate Communication

Corporate Communication
Author: Michael B. Goodman
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 432
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780791420553

Communication has become more complex as businesses compete globally. This book explores corporate communication as both a professional practice and as an academic discipline. The essays and case studies provide numerous perspectives on topics such as diversity, sexual harassment, global corporate communications, and communicating corporate culture. These essays are meant to stimulate thought and encourage additional research.

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award Winning Grants

The Complete Guide to Writing Effective & Award Winning Grants
Author: Dianne Harris
Publisher: Atlantic Publishing Company
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1601380461

Book & CD-ROM. Every day federal, state, and local government as well as other organisations including corporations and foundations give out more than a MILLION DOLLARS IN FREE GRANT MONEY. You will learn from start to finish how to write a grant proposal. The book comes with examples of fully completed proposals on the easy-to-use companion CD-ROM that also contains templates in Word (tm) for easy customising and printing. You will have: Step-by-step methods for creating a fundable proposal -- from start to finish. Access to information and annotated links for hundreds of foundations, state, and federal resources, sample proposals, sample letters, worksheets, and checklists to assist in the proposal-development process. Basic steps of preparing a grant proposal. Correct organisation for your project.

Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide

Fundraising Basics: A Complete Guide
Author: Barbara L. Ciconte
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 627
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1449664954

As nonprofit organizations face heightened scrutiny by the general public, donors, regulators, and members of Congress, the Third Edition of the essential book on the basics of fundraising provides new, up-to-date and valuable information that every fundraiser needs to know. With ethics and accountability being the primary theme of the Third Edition, this practical guide will continue to provide an overview of the field and give development staff, managers, and directors a platform from which to operate their fundraising programs. The new edition also provides much needed information on giving trends, computer hardware and software available for fundraisers, cost estimates and workflow timetables, and the importance of the Internet. This primer remains a must-have for anyone new to the fundraising arena.