Essentials Of Cash Management

The fast and easy way to grasp cash flow management Cash Flow For Dummies offers small business owners, accountants, prospective entrepreneurs, and others responsible for cash management an informational manual to cash flow basics and proven success strategies. Cash Flow For Dummies is an essential guide to effective strategies that will make your business more appealing on the market. Loaded with valuable tips and techniques, it teaches individuals and companies the ins and outs of maximizing cash flow, the fundamentals of cash management, and how it affects the quality of a company's earnings. Cash flow is the movement of cash into or out of a business, project, or financial product. It is usually measured during a specified, finite period of time, and can be used to measure rates of return, actual liquidity, real profits, and to evaluate the quality of investments. Cash Flow For Dummies gives you an understanding of the basic principles of cash management and its core principles to facilitate small business success. Covers how to read cash flow statements Illustrates how cash balances are analyzed and monitored—including internal controls over cash receipts and disbursements, plus bank account reconciliation and activity analysis Tips on how to avoid the pitfalls of granting credit—evaluating customer credit, sources of credit information, and overall credit policy Advice on how to prevent fraud and waste Covers cash-generating tactics when doing business with dot-coms, other start-ups, and bankrupt customers Cash Flow For Dummies is an easy-to-understand guide that covers all of these essentials for success and more.

* Learn practical, real-world examples and techniques for managing cash * Optimize cash flows and liquidity management * Discover the implications of recently enacted financial deregulation laws * Conduct financial transactions in the global, e-commerce economy * Develop a partnership approach to bank relationships Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments and technologies in managing corporate cash. MICHELE ALLMAN-WARD is Managing Director of Allman-Ward Associates, Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in strategic planning, product and business unit development, training, project management, and market research with particular emphasis on international treasury management. JAMES SAGNER is a Principal of Sagner/Marks and has managed over 250 large-scale studies for companies and nonprofit organizations worldwide. He is a regular faculty member in the Kenan-Flagler Business School's "Advanced Topics in Cash Management" program at the University of North Carolina. The Wiley Essentials Series-because the business world is always changing...and so should you.

A comprehensive primer for executives and managers on working capital management With limited access to credit and short term funding, it is increasingly important that companies focus on working capital management to free up funds and optimize liqidity. Written in the easy-to-follow Essentials Series style, Essentials of Working Capital Management covers the main components of working capital. Covers the latest trends around working capital Discusses a range of working capital topics, including cash management, banking relations, accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and foreign exchange Analyzes the efficient utilization of current assets and liabilities of a business through each phase of the operating cycle Examines the planning, monitoring, and management of the company's collections, disbursements and concentration banking Explores the gathering and management of information and forecast data to effectively use funds and identify risk Focused on how businesses can continue to be successful in these difficult times, specifically in relation to the limited credit available to businesses, this book puts practical guidance at your fingertips so you can put them to work right away. A comprehensive case introduces each major section of the book, and suggested solutions are included in a book appendix.

Essentials of Financial Management is a paperback edition of an Open Access e-textbook suitable for students with limited knowledge of finance and financial markets. It answers the main questions of a corporate entity, such as how businesses finance their activities, how they select projects to invest in, the distribution of net cash flow and, of increasing importance, how businesses manage price risk relating to cost of goods sold or a decline in revenue. In providing invaluable guidance to finance, management and business students, Essentials of Financial Management employs two main philosophies: that finance is a real-life subject and that finance is a numerical subject, which is why this brilliant e-textbook contains real world examples as well as numerous Excel spreadsheet solutions for students to download and use.

* Proven real-life strategies to maximize cash flow * Best techniques to enhance the order-to-cash cycle * Innovative ways to revamp the purchase-to-pay cycle * Cash-generating tactics when selling to dot-coms, other start-ups, and bankrupt customers Full of valuable tips, techniques, illustrative real-world examples, exhibits, and best practices, this handy and concise paperback will help you stay up to date on the newest thinking, strategies, developments, and technologies in cash flow. "Loaded with practical tips and techniques on how a company can improve its cash flow. Timely, given the recent rash of bankruptcies and stories on questionable accounting practices. Mr. Schaeffer's book highlights why today's credit professional needs to pay particular attention to the cash flow statement when analyzing a customer's creditworthiness." -Raymond E. Blatz, Division Manager, AT&T Business Services Revenue Assurance Management "Essentials of Cash Flow is a great cash flow primer. Mr. Schaeffer effectively takes us from the basics to the essentials of cash flow using down-to-earth dialogue and real-world examples. I can see this book becoming a must in the library of all entrepreneurs and business managers." -James Stephenson, Vice President, Finance Clougherty Packing Company