The Vest Pocket CFO 3rd Edition

The newly updated fast-reference problem solver

The Vest Pocket CFO 3rd Edition the convenient, comprehensive reference that professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years is now updated in a new Third Edition to give today’s busy financial managers and executives the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere to a client’s office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving day-to-day accounting issues, The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition helps you quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. In an easy-to-use Q&A format, the new edition includes:

• New chapters on How to Value Business and Securities and Business Strategies and Shareholder Value Analysis
  • Useful topics such as the new status of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and corporate governance
    • Expanded coverage of cost management and analysis including life-cycle costing, act-based management (ABM), target costing and pricing, balanced scorecard, total quality management (TQM), and quality costs
      • Updated coverage of financial modeling software and expansion on Enterprise Risk Management

        The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition is a powerful companion for the complex, ever-changing world of accounting and finance.

Jae K. Shim, PhD, has authored or coauthored more than fifty professional and college accounting books. He is CEO of Delta Consulting Co., a financial consulting and training firm and has been a consultant to commercial and nonprofit organizations for over thirty years. Joel G. Siegel, PhD, CPA, is the author of over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person-Wolinsky CPA Review.