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If you’re a small business owner, managing the financial affairs of your business can seem like a daunting task—and it’s one that far too many people muddle through rather than seek help. Now, there’s a tool-packed guide designed to help you manage your finances and run your business successfully!

Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies explains step by step how to handle all your financial affairs, from preparing financial statements and managing cash flow to streamlining the accounting process, requesting bank loans, increasing profits, and much more. The bonus CD-ROM features handy reproducible forms, checklists, and templates—from a monthly expense summary to a cash flow statement—and provides how-to guidance that removes the guesswork in using each tool. You’ll discover how to:

• Plan a budget and forecast
• Streamline the accounting process
• Improve your profit and cash flow
• Make better decisions with a profit model
• Raise capital and request loans
• Invest company money wisely
• Keep your business solvent
• Choose your legal entity for income tax
• Avoid common management pitfalls
• Put a market value on your business

Complete with ten rules for small business survival and a financial glossary, Small Business Financial Management Kit For Dummies is the fun and easy way® to get your finances in order, perk up your profits, and thrive long term!

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Customer Reviews (3)

Great info but not for dummies
I've tried reading this book several times and can only get to chapter 3 without getting completely confused.It is NOT written from the perspective of a new small business owner that has no experience with finances.The examples used are from large company perspectives and the terminology is confusing.I am a college graduate and have worked with finances of a large company as well as my own personal finances so I'm not a financial dummy.It even discusses how "your hired book keeper should be providing you with profit/loss reports on a monthly basis so you can make sure your company is on the right track".Most start up companies owners do their own book keeping so it should show the owner how to do the book keeping in the first place (and what off the shelf products are good for doing that) before assuming they have hired help for that yet.
It does have an index for the terminology and it does have a lot of examples - just really hard to understand how it relates to a start up business with much less than what they show in the examples.

Book for dummies-Financial management for small business
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Covers the basics well
This is a great book for anyone who's thinking about starting their own business. It covers the financial management aspect of business.

The lessons are all foundational. Every one needs to build their business on some core foundations and this book provides them.

The financial tools like cashflow, income statements and balance sheets are all covered and explained in simple English. Examples are also provided to help follow along. The tables in the examples are also available on the disc provided, easily modifiable to suit your own business.

Some readers might not like dummies book because they lack depth. This is not the case with this book. Also, if you want to learn more on certain aspect, e.g. accounting, you can always get more specialized book. The point of this book is to give readers the essentials they need to know.

This is a valuable book at an affordable price.

Here's the list of contents:
-- Part I: Improving Your Profit, Cash Flow, and Solvency.
Chapter 1: Managing Your Small Business Finances.
Chapter 2: Understanding Your P&L and Profit Performance.
Chapter 3: Getting Up to Speed on Cash Flow from Profit.
Chapter 4: Keeping Your Business Solvent.
-- Part II: Using Tools of the Trade.
Chapter 5: Protecting the Family Jewels.
Chapter 6: Scrutinizing Your Costs.
Chapter 7: Practical Budgeting Techniques for Your Business.
Chapter 8: Making Decisions with a Profit Model.
-- Part III: Dealing with Small Business Financial Issues.
Chapter 9: Jumping Through Tax Hoops.
Chapter 10: Raising Capital for Your Business.
Chapter 11: Diagnosing Your Financial Condition.
-- Part IV: Looking at Service and Manufacturing Businesses.
Chapter 12: When You Sell Services.
Chapter 13: When You Make the Products You Sell.
-- Part V: Reaching the End of the Line.
Chapter 14: Putting a Market Value on Your Business and Selling.
Chapter 15: Hanging Up the Spikes and Terminating Your Business.
-- Part VI: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 16: Ten Management Rules for Small Business Survival.
Chapter 17: Ten Hard-Core Financial Tools and Tactics.

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Information on business plans, mission statements, starting a business, financing a small business, customer targeting, and successful management techniques. ... Read more

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HereÂ's a practical handbook for owners and managers of small-to-medium size businesses with advice on controlling the companyÂ's financial resources, purchasing and amortizing capital equipment, projecting operating costs, and meeting ongoing expenses. The authors offer guidance in understanding and analyzing financial statements, the time-value of money, making capital budgeting decisions, and much more. Appendices include a list of online Internet resources and short descriptions of Excel financial and investment functions. The third edition has been updated with new information on SEC reporting requirements, managing dependent-demand inventories, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and more. ... Read more

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Excellent Desk Reference
I finally decided that maintaining a set of university texts as a reference library was not particularly useful or effective. The Barron's Business Library series has enduring utility, is cost effective and does not take up too much space in a book case. Financial Management (3rd ed.) is extremely useful for anyone requiring a concise reference in a convenient size and reasonable price.

Clear and concise Financial Management book
I purchased this as an additional study guide in business school. It is very well organized, and all the explanations would have made sense to me before my graduate education, so I know this will come in handy for lots of people. I definitely recommend it to anyone studying or working in financial management!

All you need to know - a key book in a key series
Barron's Financial Management is an EXCELLENT resource for business people, entrepreneurs or anyone seeking a better understanding of corporate finance. It is pithy in that it covers all the key concepts (from the time value of money to raising capital).

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This book of readings, intended as a supplement to business financial management text and casebooks, includes 48 articles focusing on the theory, not the methodology, of finance.Features:* Beginning finance students will find the 48 articles readable and understandable. * Articles cover a broad range of business financial management topics, enabling instructors to use the book throughout the term and in different course structures. * Over 300 hundred questions are included, approximately seven questions appear at the end of each article.These questions help structure classroom interaction. * Ethical issues are highlighted in Part I and international issues in Part VII. * Articles were penned by such prominent financial names as Harry Markowitz, Jeremy Siegel, Stewart Myers, David Sharp, Sean Beketti, Michael Jensen, and Bruce Resnick.New to this edition: * Over 80 percent of the articles are EW TO THIS EDITION.Articles were chosen based on a number of criteria, including accessibility and how it builds on the ideas usually presented in introductory finance courses. * The 40 new articles were published in 1989 or later.The other eight, published between 1983 to 1987, were included in this edition because of their clear and concise messages. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Armed Forces Comptroller, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2005. The length of the article is 1686 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: GFEBS: the foundation for army financial management transformation: how the United States Army plans to reform its business and financial management functions in its goal to achieve financial accountability.
Author: Cherie Smith
Publication: Armed Forces Comptroller (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 50Issue: 4Page: 6(3)

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Presents complete information on best practices in financial management to help your small business grow and prosper.Demonstrates how to use the latest technology to your advantage with detailed, real-world examples of accessible financial systems you can quickly set up yourself using popular software.Softcover. DLC: Small business--Finance. ... Read more

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Excellent book - a must read for every small business
Very well written and will help you use your money wisely. Part 1 gives a good overview of "...what you need to survive" and paints a broad picture of the small business market.

Part 2 and 3 get down into thedetails of accounting for small business and investing, respecitvely. Ofcourse each part is composed of several sections and throughout the bookshows how technology can be used proactively, not just as a passivemenace.

My favorite section is Part 4. If you are deadly serious aboutselling online then get this book today! WEB Storefronts is the name ofthis section and it covers such topics as "why you need a webstorefront", "when to do it yourself, when to hire and ISP","setting up electronic commerce" and other useful topics. Thelast section, Part 5, has 4 chapters cover credit cards, smart cards,adjusting your life style, being socially responsible and mentions ofventure capital, angel investors and other financial hope forentreprenuers.

This book is a must for any small business who is seriousabout managing their money AND using the Internet to grow their business. ... Read more

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Financial Management for Business: Cracking the Hidden Code represents a breakthrough approach to business education. Set against the gripping story of Luca Pacioli's discovery of the "Hidden Code" of bookkeeping that transformed medieval business and remains at the heart of every modern enterprise, the book presents an innovative step-by-step model that will transform your understanding of financial management. Key concepts such as profit and loss, cash flow and balance sheets are brought to life with Internet-based simulations that show how cash actually flows around the business.
The book also helps to explain how decisions such as pricing and advertising affect the bottom line and why financial disasters happen, such as the 2008 international banking crisis. Professionals and students will find the book an invaluable companion to CIMA's new fast-track financial qualification for non-accountants.The book comes with a free trial of the web-based simulation models: visit www.financial-management-for-business.com for further details. ... Read more

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With the dotcom bubble well and truly burst, it is clear that to conduct successful business online you need an effective e-business strategy. This report shows you how to develop, design, implement and measure your e-commerce strategy. It guides you through the entire cycle from the identification of options, through prioritisation and implementation to measurement and review. Each stage contains tools and frameworks you can use to develop your own strategy or to clarify an existing strategy. By introducing the concept of value gap analysis to each stage of the sale the authors show how to identify areas where e-commerce solutions can make a real impact in both B2B and B2C transactions. The report is based on extensive research and features best practice case studies from leading companies so that you can benefit from their experience.Contents include: *Overview of strategy development process *Context and positioning *Market value analysis *Market vision *Prioritisation and selection *Measurement of electronic commerce *Case studies ... Read more

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This new edition includes extensive revision making it more accessible to students by use of appendices and asterisk sections. New material includes curves, countertrade, forfeiting currency options, theories of exchange rates and international asset pricing. ... Read more