Key Management Ratios
Master the management metrics that drive and control your business
Ciaran Walsh
In Detail
Business ratios are the
figures that provide management with targets and standards for their organisation. They
direct businesses towards the most beneficial long-term strategies, as well as towards
effective decision making.
This book enables managers of
different functions to work together towards achieving business goals. It links the return
on financial resources into the day-to-day operating parameters of the business - skills
which any manager from any background can implement.
Areas covered include:
the foundations
the cash flow cycle
financial leverage
measuring and operating
performance
corporate valuation
investment ratios
Contents
Part I Foundations
1 Background
2 Financial statements
3 Balance sheet terms
4 Profit and loss account
Part II Operating Performance
5 Measures of performance
6 Operating performance
7 Performance drivers
Part III Corporate liquidity
8 Cash flow cycle
9 Liquidity
10 Financial strength
11Cash flow
Part IV Determinants of
corporate value
12 Corporate valuation
13 Financial leverage
14 Growth
Part V Management
Decision-Making
15 Cost, volume and price
relationships
16 Investment ratios
17 Shareholder value added
(SVA)
18 Acquisition analysis
376 pages