Financial Management

JACK ALEXANDER is a veteran Chief Financial Officer, financial management consultant, author, and lecturer. He advises businesses on strategic planning, value creation, mergers and acquisitions, financial planning and analysis, and more. He is a frequent keynote speaker on business performance management and financial leadership.

• Preface1. Partner in Driving Performance and ValueI. Fundamentals and Key Partner Capabilities2. The Fundamentals of Finance and Financial Statement Analysis3. Skills, Knowledge and Attributes for Financial Business Partners4. Developing Predictive and Analytical Models5. Presenting and Communicating Business InformationII. Financial Leadership in the 21st Century6. Essential Ingredients for Value Creation: Growth and ROIC7. Managing Hunan Capital and Building a High-Performance Finance Team8. Strategic Analysis and Planning9. The Role of Finance in Supporting Growth10. The External View: Markets, Competitors, Economic and Geo-political Forces11. Course Corrections: Business Transformations and Restructurings12. Leveraging and Promoting Technology Investments13. Scenario Analysis and Planning14. Adaptability: Innovation Agility & ResilienceIII. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM)15. Enterprise Performance Management and Execution16. Dashboards and Key Performance Indicators17. Institutionalizing Performance Management18. Benchmarking PerformanceIV. Business Projections and Plans19. Business Projections and Plans, Introduction and Best Practices20. Budgets, Operating Plans and Forecasts21. Long-term ProjectionsV. Planning and Analysis for Critical Business and Value Drivers22. Revenue and Gross Margins23. Operating Efficiency: Costs and Expenses24. Capital Management and Cash Flow - Working Capital25. Capital Management and Cash Flow - Capital Assets26. Risk and the Cost of Capital27. Capital Structure and Financial LeverageVI. Valuation and Capital Investment Decisions28. Capital Investment Decisions - Introduction and Key Concepts29. Capital Investment Decisions – Advanced Topics30. Business Valuation and Value Drivers31. Analysis of Mergers and AcquisitionsVII. Summary32. Summary and Where to From Here?Supplemental InformationGlossaryReferencesAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorAbout the WebsiteIndex