Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals
eBook - PDF

Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals

What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers

  1. 296 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals

What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers

About this book

As an IT manager, you're expected to make key decisions and recommend major investments. And that means understanding your decisions' financial impact on your company. But if you're like many information technology practitioners, you may feel uncomfortable incorporating the financials into your day-to-day work.Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean, Karen Berman and Joe Knight present the essentials of finance specifically for IT experts.Drawing on their work training tens of thousands of managers and employees at leading organizations worldwide, the authors illuminate the basics of financial management and measurement and provide hands-on activities for practicing what you are reading. You'll discover:· Why the assumptions behind financial data matter
· What your company's income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement reveal
· How to use ratios to assess your company's financial health
· How to calculate return on IT investments
· Ways to use financial information to support your company's business units and do your own job better
· How to instill financial intelligence throughout your teamAuthoritative and accessible, Financial Intelligence for IT Professionals empowers you to "talk numbers" confidently with your boss, colleagues, and direct reports -- and understand how the financials affect your part of the business.

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Information

Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Year
2008
Print ISBN
9781422119143
eBook ISBN
9781422131817
Topic
Business
Subtopic
Finance
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Preface: What Is Financial Intelligence?
  3. [ PART ONE ] THE ART OF FINANCE (AND WHY IT MATTERS TO IT)
  4. [ PART TWO ] THE (MANY) PECULIARITIES OF THE INCOME STATEMENT
  5. [ PART THREE ] THE BALANCE SHEET REVEALS THE MOST
  6. [ PART FOUR ] CASH IS KING
  7. [ PART FIVE ] RATIOS: LEARNING WHAT THE NUMBERS ARE REALLY TELLING YOU
  8. [ PART SIX ] HOW TO CALCULATE (AND REALLY UNDERSTAND) RETURN ON INVESTMENT
  9. [ PART SEVEN ] APPLIED FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE: WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
  10. [ PART EIGHT ] CREATING A FINANCIALLY INTELLIGENT IT DEPARTMENT (AND ORGANIZATION)
  11. Appendix A: Sample Financials
  12. Appendix B: Exercises to Build Your Financial Intelligenceā€”Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Ratios
  13. Appendix C: Kimberly-Clark and FedEx Financial Statements
  14. Notes
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index
  17. About the Authors