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The thorough reference that goes wherever you goThe Vest Pocket CFO is the perfect up-to-date referencetool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other financeprofessionals. Written in an easy Q&A format and packed withchecklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety ofaccounting and finance problems, readers can take this handyreference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a clientconducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.

Part 1. Reports and Filings.One. Chief Financial Officer's Reports.Two. Securities and ExchangeCommission Filings.Part 2. Financial Accounting.Three. Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement.Four. Financial Statement Reporting:The Balance Sheet.Five. The Statement of Cash Flows.Six. Accounting and Disclosures.Seven. Key Financial Accounting Areas.Eight. Interim and Segmental Reporting.Part 3. Management Accounting.Nine. Cost Management and Analysis.Ten. Cost-Volume-Profit Analysisand Leverage.Eleven. Short-Term Decisions.Twelve. Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting.Thirteen. Risk Management.Fourteen. Capital Budgeting.Fifteen. What and Why of Responsibility Accounting.Sixteen. Control of Profit Centers.Seventeen. Performance of Investment Centersand Transfer Pricing.Eighteen. How To Analyze And Improve Corporate Profitability AndShareholder Value.Nineteen. Sustainable Growth Model.Part 4. Management of Assetsand Payables.Twenty. Working Capital and CashManagement.Twenty-one. Management of Accounts Receivable.Twenty-two. Inventory Management.Twenty-three. Management of Payables.Part 5. Financing the Business.Twenty-four. Short-Term and Intermediate-TermFinancing.Twenty-five. Long-Term Financing.Twenty-six. Warrants And Convertibles.Twenty-seven. Cost of Capital and Capital.Twenty-eight. Dividend Policy.Twenty-nine. Financial Management Of MultinationalCorporations.Part 6. Financial Analysis.Thirty. Financial Statement Analysis.Thirty-one. Analysis, Evaluation, and Controlof Revenue and Costs.Thirty-two. Insurance and Legal Considerations.Thirty-three. Basics of Economics.PAart 7. Investments.Thirty-four. Corporate Investments In Securities.Part 8. Taxation.Thirty-five. Tax Factors In FinancialDecision Making.Part 9. Mergers, Divestitures, Failure, AndReorganization.Thirty-six. Mergers And Acquisitions.Thirty-seven. Divestiture.Thirty-eight. Forecasting Corporate FinancialThirty-nine. Failure and Reorganization.Appendix.Index.