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Practical Financial Management: A Guide to Budgets Balance Sheets and Business Finance 7th Edition
Author(s): Colin Barrow (Author)
- Publisher: Kogan Page
- Publication Date: 3 Aug. 2008
- Edition: 7th
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0749452730
- ISBN-13: 9780749452735
Book Description
Entrepreneurs need to be financially literate. The most common cause of business failure is poor financial control stemming from an ignorance of the basics of business finance.
Practical Financial Management is intended to help those who find business finance confusing. Now in its seventh edition, it continues to provide advice on proper financial planning and control, and 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 – the keys to controlling a business successfully. The final part of the book deals with business planning and budgeting, a vital area of business finance as most new ventures cannot get off the ground without a business plan, and existing businesses cannot expand.
An invaluable read for aspiring entrepreneurs and those already in business, this book could mean the difference between success and failure.
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About the Author
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading European Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and East Asia. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and ‘Anglicising’ books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics.
