Finance for IT Decision Makers

Michael Blackstaff is a chartered accountant with over thirty years' finance and marketing experience in the IT industry. He has worked as a financial marketing specialist with IBM, teaching salespeople the finance of selling and advising customers on finance and accounting for IT. He writes and teaches on finance for non-financial professionals.

• 1 Finance and accounts: the basics 2 Decisions, decisions... 3 Financial cases and business cases 4 When is a benefit not a benefit? 5 How financial cases are evaluated: Part 1 6 How financial cases are evaluated: Part 2 7 The effects of taxation 8 Depreciation of IT assets9 IT Financing and leasing 10 Outsourcing: financial aspects  11 Budgeting, costing and pricing: the basics 12 Financial analysis: the basics APPENDICESA1 Discount tables A2 Financial characteristics of different businesses A3 Published accounts A4 Accounting for long-term contracts A5 Debit and credit GlossaryFurther Reading Index

This is a practical, readable and enjoyable guide to the financial factors that IT decision makers should consider when making an investment and how these relate to business operations.