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This book is intended to help professionals gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner. This book is intended to help professionals, especially from functional areas other than finance—such as sales, marketing, human resource, research and development, production, and procurement—to gain an extensive working knowledge of critical financial principles in an easy-to-follow manner, enabling them to make critical business decisions involving cost-savings, budgets, new projects decisions, and growth strategies. The author introduces the key concepts of finance so you can contribute to the success of your business. These will help you under...
MS Excel: Let's advance to the Next Level is an attempt to take you to the next orbit of competence in this fascinating world. It is a ready reckoner for any practitioner who seeks to further his/her understanding of the tools and utilities. The author offers to make life easier for a data analyst, thus, it will be of relevance to students, academicians, the ones pursuing corporate careers as well as entrepreneurs preparing business plans for their startups. The book explains a wide array of complex functions, ranging from V-LOOKUP to MATCH/INDEX and pivot tables in very practical, simple, and implementable manner. The segments on conditional formatting and printing tricks will help the reader present the output to stakeholders in a more efficient manner. Do try the features Excel has on offer for controlling data input as well as creating checks and balances to ensure cell/sheet/file-level security.
To use a cliché, we live in a volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world.Organizations simply cannot afford to try out new strategies in reality and correct mistakes, once they've occurred.The stakes are too high. Thus emerges the utility of this technique across functions like financial planning and risk management. Financial models help a business manager simulate the future and see the impact of their change, without risking costly setbacks of real world trials and errors.Mastering the art of financial modeling is imperative for those who want to enter the ultra-competitive world of corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or equity research. Only those who excel (pun intended) in modeling early on are often the most successful long-term.The book will help readers dive deep into the vocabulary and the syntax, the art and science of financial modeling and valuation. Readers will be able to prepare/use existing models more competently, interpret the results and have greater comfort over the integrity and accuracy of the model's calculations.
Entrepreneurship or ‘Starting Up’ as we like to call it, is no longer an elite pursuit of Ivy league college pass outs. After Cricket and Bollywood, Entrepreneurship has firmly taken the third place in our post dinner conversations. Starting up is now a career option for many whilst still in college, and for others, it is a way to move from a corporate canvas, to painting their own business legacy. If you are one of those, who roam with an IDEA in your Pocket, or in a Google Drive Folder or in the spaces of your mind, then pick up this book and validate your IDEA. Author, Aneesh Khanna, takes you through this journey from IDEA to ENTERPRISE, where each chapter peels the layer of your IDEA, step by step. The book also serves as a workbook, where you commit to journaling your thoughts on topics like ‘Your motivation to Starting up, Idea Validation, Competition Analysis, MOAT, Product Market Fit, Minimum Viable Product, Fundraising’ and a lot more. There isn’t a better time to Startup in India, and the world waits for your Entrepreneurial light.
The book will help readers dive deep into the vocabulary and the syntax, the art and science of financial modeling and valuation. To use a cliché, we live in a volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. Organizations simply cannot afford to try out new strategies in reality and correct mistakes, once they’ve occurred. The stakes are too high. Thus emerges the utility of this technique across functions like financial planning and risk management. Financial models help a business manager simulate the future and see the impact of their change, without risking costly setbacks of real world trials and errors. Mastering the art of financial modeling is imperative for those who want to enter the ultra-competitive world of corporate finance, investment banking, private equity, or equity research. Only those who excel (pun intended) in modeling early on are often the most successful long- term. Readers will be able to prepare/use existing models more competently, interpret the results and have greater comfort over the integrity and accuracy of the model’s calculations.
Financial statements serve as a report card for a business through which managers and entrepreneurs can know their exact financial positions. These financial statements are prepared only through financial accounting. The main purpose of financial accounting is to help entrepreneurs exercise control over their business activities by controlling total costs incurred so that they are able to earn higher profits. So, in order to understand where exactly the business stands financially, knowledge of financial accounting is imperative. What is financial accounting? Why do I need to understand it? How will it help me in my business? Why is it important to me? Or Is it important to me? These are some of the questions that surface in the minds of young and aspiring entrepreneurs when they start their business or are on the verge of starting one. This book aims to answer them in the most practical and comprehensible manner possible so that accounting is no longer a nightmare for them.
Creating a powerful and impactful survey is no easy feat; even experienced survey researchers struggle to eliminate bias and create robust questionnaire designs. Through case studies, real-life examples, and multiple data visualization graphics, Conducting Survey Research offers a unique how to guide on creating a survey. Throughout its seven chapters, the text enables readers to build relevant, unbiased, and purposeful survey questions. The text highlights common mistakes in survey research (e.g., using the appropriate sample size and survey administration mode), and demonstrates how to interpret survey data and report findings. While numerous online survey platforms exist, the text reviews features of some of the most popular ones to help readers decide which best meet their needs. The world of survey research is extensive. While this text offers a great introduction to the survey research world, it only covers the tip of the iceberg. For those interested in delving deeper into the topic, JAF Associates offers onsite, on-demand, instructor-led, and self-paced learning modules covering the content of this text, and more.
MS Excel is one of the most powerful tools available to a business manager. In this book, the author provides an advanced level of skill sets and brings actionable insights to the user. Hence, the material in this version has been organized as follows: Financial functions; Conditional math and statistical functions; Data analysis; Decision making; Data cleaning and use of macros; Auditors. The objective is to give readers a flavor of how the vast array of functions can be used to make life easier and more efficient. Amazing results can be achieved by mastering Excel at a basic level. Readers who execute the given functions on a workbook simultaneously and experience the journey will find the learning curve the steepest.
Mastering Options: Effective and Profitable Strategies for Investors is essential reading for beginners to the world of options. It explains the essentials of option and hedging strategies that will empower you to earn attractive profits. Primarily aimed at undergraduates and retail investors, it opens the door to a world of unlimited profits with limited risk. In concise language, augmented by relevant graphics, the key trading tools available to investors using online option trading platforms, are explained in detail. Chapter by chapter, this book builds up a complete understanding of the essential building blocks of options investing, including covering key charting techniques using technical analysis tools. Here’s what you learn from Mastering Options: The characteristics of an option. Types of options and common terms. The underlying principles of options investing. Insights into why you should invest in options. Option strategies that consistently make profits whilst managing risk exposure. Case studies illustrating each strategy. This book exposes the myth that investing in financial options is an impenetrable mystery.
The audit committee has gained considerable attention in the aftermath of 2007-2009 global financial crisis. The audit committee’s role has evolved from a voluntary liaison between management and external auditors to the standing committee of the board of directors in overseeing all aspects of corporate governance, financial reporting, internal controls, risk assessment, and audit activities. This book addresses the determinants of audit committee oversight effectiveness, including their composition, independence, authority, resources, diligence, and activities. The book is organized into three separate volumes and each volume can be utilized separately or in an integrated form. The first ...