The Finance Book: Understand the numbers even if you’re not a finance professional
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Shortlisted in the ‘Practical Manager’ category for the 2018 Management Book of the Year prize by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and the British Library.
- Translated into three languages.
- Continual Best Seller (Amazon) & ‘Business Book of the Month’ on publication (WH Smith).
No knowledge required
The book is purposefully designed to be quick and easy to use with no previous knowledge required to comprehend the concepts. We “tell you what you need to know” to quickly “get up to speed” in core finance concepts.
A key feature of this book is that you do not have read it from cover to cover to make sense of finance. Each chapter is written as a “standalone” topic. This enables you to dip in and dip out of chapters. Further, we have taken otherwise complex topics and broken them down into key concepts that are explained in concise, easy to read sections.
Practitioners not academics
Whilst not an academic book, it is also not a “simplistic” book. It is a practical book because it has been written by practitioners. We include throughout this book our first-hand personal experiences gained from working in businesses across many industries and sectors, rather than replicating knowledge from academia.
In addition, the authors have spent countless hours instructing, teaching and training thousands of professionals from disciplines including marketing, sales, production, administration, HR and legal.
Focused on business application
The overwhelming majority of finance books available are better suited to trainee accountants because they take an academic approach to finance. Whilst necessary for accountants, they immerse the reader in the “detail”.
The Finance Book is written for non-finance people like you. It is aimed at those who work or aspire to work in business.
It will help professionals in business or thinking about a career in business including board directors, business managers, MBA students, graduates and undergraduates.
Your book, your journey
To make the book easy to read, we have used a consistent format across chapters. Within each chapter there are multiple cross references (and links) to other relevant chapters as they occur. This will enable you to review chapters and make connections relevant to you. Allow your curiosity to determine your path through the book.
THE KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS EVERY PROFESSIONAL NEEDS, TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FOR THEIR BUSINESS
‘Essential reading for any non-finance professional. This is an easy to read and practical guide to the world of finance.’ Paul Herman, Group CEO, Bluebox Corporate Finance
‘A really helpful, well organised and easy to understand primer and reference book for those who aren’t accountants but still need to understand the accounts.’ Roger Siddle, Chairman, Cordium Group
‘A great book. At last, a guide that demystifies and encourages business owners to practically understand financial matters. A must read.’ Gordon Vater CEO, RiiG Limited
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Additional information
| Publisher | 1st edition (1 May 2017), FT Publishing International |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 360 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1292123648 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1292123646 |
| Dimensions | 13.46 x 2.29 x 21.59 cm |
by Cam Cam the Table man
Solid book, helped me with the big concepts of business finance.
Lay out is nice to follow.
Feel it is potentially missing a few things, but the main items are definitely covered. Maybe a tiny bit more depth would have garnered it the 5 stars, as opposed to 4.
by Phil
The book is essentially a table of terms with explanations, which has some usefulness, albeit a bit dull. However, this book will be of most use if you relate the text content to an actual financial report. The problem is that the financial report is provided in the appendix, so you need to constantly move between the chapter and the appendix. Worse on Kindle is that you are given page numbers to go to (there are no page numbers given) and no links. Why not put the pages where they are needed? To make matters worse, the reports are not marked-up in anyway to relate the text to the actual report – you will have a matrix of numbers in the text and you have to find which numbers the authors refer from the text (and sometimes the numbers in the text are summed so they do not actually appear in the report). You need to pick your own way through the financial report which is tedious and time consuming and what you bought the book to avoid. And how about a reliable place to find the financial report and others from different years, different companies. And how do you go about reading the report of a company you are interested in…cover to cover, backwards, footnotes and proxy first, summary data? Overall I ‘d say this book is lazy and a bit clueless about effective teaching. It might help people already in finance who just need jargon clarification, but it won’t enable to quickly and effectively evaluate a company by reading the financial reports.
by Emma Hall
This book has literally saved my life. As an MBA student, the Finance module is proving to be a challenge as I am definitely not from a finance background. This book was an impulse buy- a last ditched attempt at making sense of the terminology and concepts explored. It is succinct and informative. The layout is very clear and information presented logically and with clarity. I would recommend this book to anyone starting an MBA. It really is a game changer!
by suvasis arya
A well- sequenced overview of the complex mechanisms / terms of corporate finance. Si Hussain has distilled the confusing behemoth into neat, digestible chunks of precise information- for anyone who wants clarity, step by step, from the bottom up. And made things even more accessible because the short, precise chapters are levelled sloping- swimming pool stylie:
(Shallow) Each chapter begins with a five -second nutshell definition for the the drop-in artiste / recapper.
(Medium) Brief but clear five minute extension of relevant details follows. For businessfolk who have ten minutes to clarify exactly what key terms mean – and what effects them – for that important meeting after lunch.
(Deep) Further Short extension of real world examples, complexities and historical details for the necessary situation for in-depth planners.
A potent and well-ordered dictionary that you can drop into… lazer-tailored to the reader’s desires; I am sure that- were I a business professional – I would want this book to hand as a dictionary for frequent dipping into.
by bookworm
What a great book, simple, concise but covers everything I can think of about finance and book keeping for managers.
I haven’t done book keeping for awhile and bought it to bring me up to date and as a revision for a course. I’m super impressed that it seems to cover everything and then some.
by catspaw
I couldn’t afford not to ignore it; it has some sums in it and they are VERY HARD. Well, not that hard, but they are all about things that no sane person would ever want to know. I would strongly advise you to think very carefully before showing this book to anyone – they will think you are on the spectrum, plectrum. Now the sodding budgie has escaped and the cat’s chasing it. Did I tell you, the cat’s called Maurice (but only on Thursdays).
by McGinz
I found this book incredibly helpful. I am studying towards my CAT qualification, and I found this information helped to recap areas covered by BPP and online lectures. It’s also helping me in my current job looking into financial statements and areas which could be risky. I think this will be referred to frequently
by Mr R Hacker
I was hoping to have a simple layman terms finance book – however this was probably slightly too advanced for the everyday person…having said that there is a huge amount of incredibly useful information laid out in a simple format which is consistent throughout the book…it is something I will refer back to for sure!