Cash Flow For Dummies

Description

The fast and easy way to grasp cash flow management Cash Flow For Dummies offers small business owners, accountants, prospective entrepreneurs, and others responsible for cash management an informational manual to cash flow basics and proven success strategies.

Author description

Tage C. Tracy is principal owner of TMK & Associates, an accounting, financial, and strategic business planning consulting firm. John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado in Boulder and the author of Accounting For Dummies.

Table of contents

Introduction 1 Part I: Fitting Cash Flow into the Big Picture of Running a Business 7 Chapter 1: Getting in Sync with the Rhythm of Cash 9 Chapter 2: Why Accrual Accounting Is Essential 23 Chapter 3: The Big Three Financial Statements 37 Chapter 4: Getting a Grip on the Statement of Cash Flows 59 Part II: Using Financial Statements to Assess Cash Health 81 Chapter 5: Mining the Balance Sheet for Cash 83 Chapter 6: Digging Deeper into Cash Flow 113 Chapter 7: Understanding Liquidity versus Available Cash 131 Part III: Getting Intimate with Your Company's Cash Flow Needs 157 Chapter 8: Creating a Business Plan to Secure Cash 159 Chapter 9: Building Best-in-Class Projection Models to Manage Cash 173 Chapter 10: Identifying and Securing External Sources of Capital 193 Chapter 11: Knowing When to Use Debt to Finance Your Business 213 Part IV: Managing Your Business with Cash Flow in Mind 239 Chapter 12: Covering the Basics of Cash and Cash Activity 241 Chapter 13: Preventing Cash Losses from Embezzlement and Fraud 267 Chapter 14: Managing the Selling Cycle to Improve Cash Flows 281 Chapter 15: Managing the Disbursement Cycle to Improve Cash Flows 311 Part V: The Part of Tens 331 Chapter 16: Ten Keys to Managing Cash Flows in a Small Business 333 Chapter 17: Ten Tales of Cash-Flow Woes 341 Index 351

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General Fields

• ISBN : 9781118018507
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Imprint : John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date : November 2011
• Dimensions : 232mm X 185mm X 21mm
• Produced in : United States
• Availability date : November 2011
• Product Type : books

Special Fields

• Pages : 384
• Dewey classification : 658.1554
• Bind : Paperback
• Author : John A. Tracy