REPORTS AND FILINGS : Chief Financial Officer's role and reports ; Securities and Exchange Commission filings ; FINANCIAL REPORTING : Financial statement reporting: the income statement ; Financial statement reporting: the balance sheet ; Statement of cash flows ; Accounting and disclosures ; Key financial accounting areas ; Interim and segmental reporting ; COST MANAGEMENT AND IT SYSTEMS : Cost management and analysis ; Cost-volume-profit analysis and leverage ; Short-term decisions ; Financial forecasting, planning, and budgeting ; Risk management ; Capital budgeting and real options ; The what and why of responsibility accounting ; Control of profit centers ; Performance of investment centers and transfer pricing ; How to analyze and improve corporate profitability and shareholder value ; Information technology and IT systems ; MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES : Working capital and cash management ; Management of accounts receivable ; Inventory management ; Management of payables ; FINANCING THE BUSINESS : Short-term and intermediate-term financing ; Long-term financing ; Warrants and convertibles ; Cost of capital and capital structure decisions ; Dividend policy ; Financial management of multinational corporations ; FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, INSURANCE AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS, AND ECONOMICS : Financial statement analysis ; Analysis, evaluation, and control of revenue and costs ; Insurance and legal considerations ; Reading economic indicators ; LIQUIDITY AND TREASURY : Corporate investments in securities ; TAXATION : Tax factors in financial decision making ; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTITURES, FAILURE, AND REORGANIZATION : Mergers and acquisitions ; Divestiture ; Forecasting corporate financial distress ; Failure and reorganization ; Valuation of bonds and stocks ; Financial statement analysis: key financial ratios and metrics for nonprofits

A practical working guide for CFOs that covers the major areas of corporate financial management and accounting. Presents guidelines for evaluating proposals and for analysing and measuring operations, and provides tips for preparing necessary reports. Contains approaches and techniques for understanding and solving problems in areas such as financial reporting, cost management and IT systems, financial planning and budgeting, risk management and continuity planning, taxation, and mergers and acquisitions.