Finance is key to every business organisation as well as outside. This book makes sense of the finance world from a non-finance perspective. It introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of business finance to those who do not have financial background or training. Lucid, accessible, yet comprehensive, the book delineates the financial workings of businesses and offers an overview of corporate finance in the global context. The volume:
- Contains effective tools for financial communication, monitoring, analysis and resource allocation;
- Provides important learning aids such as figures, tables, illustrations and case studies;
- Highlights fundamental concepts and applications of finance;
- Surveys global corporate practices, recent trends and current data.
This updated second edition contains new sections on Tax Planning, including Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax in India. A guide to building financial acumen, this book will be a useful resource for executive and management development programmes (EDPs & MDPs) oriented towards business managers, including MBA programmes. It will benefit business executives, corporate heads, entrepreneurs, government officials, teachers, researchers, and students of management and business, as well as those who deal with finance or financial matters in their daily lives.
- INTRODUCTION
- FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ANALYSIS
- COST ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT
- FINANCIAL SYSTEM
- FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
- VALUE-BASED MANAGEMENT
- STRATEGIC FINANCE
1: Business Organisations
2: Fundamentals of Accounting
3: Accounting Principles
4: Financial Statements
5: Financial Analysis
6: Cost Concepts and Classification
7: Budgeting
8: Marginal Costing and Managerial Decision-making
9: Financial Markets
10: Mutual Funds
11: Forex Market
12: Nature of Financial Management
13: Capital Budgeting: Concept and Application
14: Time Value of Money
15: Estimation of Cash Flows
16: Capital Budgeting Appraisal Methods
17: Cost of Capital
18: Capital Structure Planning
19: Working Capital Management
20: Dividend Policy
21: Economic Value added
22: Human Resource Valuation
23: Mergers and Acquisitions
24: Corporate Governance
8. TAX PLANNING
25: Direct Taxation: Income Tax
26: Indirect Taxation: Goods and Services Tax
Appendix I: Future/Compound Value Factor of a Lump Sum (FVIF/CVIF) of Re 1, FVIF (i,n).
Appendix II: Future/Compound Value Factor of an Annuity (FVIFA/CVIFA) of Re 1, FVIFA (i,n).
Appendix III: Present Value Factor of a Lump Sum (PVIF) of Re 1, PVIF (i,n)
Appendix IV: Present Value Factor of an Annuity (PVIFA) of Re 1, PVIFA (I,n)
Appendix V: List of Corporates and Business Organisations
Biography
Sandeep Goel is Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Management Development Institute (MDI) Gurgaon, India. He holds two doctorates, one in Finance; and another in Accounting from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, and the Department of Commerce, University of Delhi, respectively. He has over two decades of industry and academic experience across various organisations and institutions, including the Shri Ram Group, the University of Delhi and MDI. He is a management trainer and consultant to top business organisations and has conducted over 200 programmes dealing with financial skills and consultancy assignments on financial management, accounting application and corporate governance. His areas of teaching and research interests are financial reporting and analysis, corporate finance, forensic accounting and corporate governance. He has authored ten books, including Financial Management Practices in India (2016) and Financial Statements Analysis: Cases from Corporate India (2014), and over 75 articles in journals, as well as being the financial columnist for Purchase.