Based on a popular Class taught by a Harvard Business School Professor. If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others. In how finance works, Mihir A. Desai-a Professor at Harvard Business School and author of the wisdom of finance, guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance, demystifying it in the process. Through entertaining case studies, interactive exercises, full-colour visuals and a conversational style that belies the topic, Professor Desai tackles a broad range of topics that will give you the knowledge and skills you need to finally understand how finance works. These include: how different financial levers can affect a company's performance the different ways in which companies fund their operations and investments why finance is more concerned with cash Flow than profits how value is created, measured and maximized the importance of capital markets in helping companies grow whether you're a student or a manager, an aspiring CFO or an entrepreneur, how finance works is the colourful and interactive guide you need to help you start thinking more deeply about the numbers.
How Finance Works: The HBR Guide to Thinking Smart About the Number |Mihir A. Desai (Author)| Harvard Business Review Press
Introduction
CHAPTER 1. Financial Analysis
Using ratios to analyze performance—all while playing a game.
CHAPTER 2. The Finance Perspective
Why finance is obsessed with cash and the future.
CHAPTER 3. The Financial Ecosystem
Understanding the who, why, and how of capital markets.
CHAPTER 4. Sources of Value Creation
Risk, costly capital, and the origins of value.
CHAPTER 5. The Art and Science of Valuation
How to value a home, an education, a project, or a company.
CHAPTER 6. Capital Allocation
How to make the most important decisions facing CEOs and CFOs.
Conclusion .
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