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Mastering Business Fundamentals: A Guide to Accounting and Finance for Real-World Success
How do you make sense of the accounting report or balance sheet you’ve just been handed? How do these reports help you to understand the company’s performance? How do you use the numbers you have been given to make good business decisions in the short and long term?
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MBA Fundamentals in Accounting and Finance offers real-world accounting and finance basics that can be applied today written by Michael P. Griffin, MBA, CPA, who has over 35 years of accounting teaching experience. In the business world, we are frequently called on to review and analyze financial data. This convenient and straightforward guide provides everything you need to know about the numbers to ensure your business’s growth.
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Understand the Functions of Accounting: Gain a solid understanding of how accounting works and why it is essential for your business.
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Learn How to Read Financial Statements: Master the skills needed to interpret balance sheets, income statements, and other key financial documents.
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Analyze Profit and Cash Flow: Develop the ability to assess your company’s profitability and manage cash flow effectively.
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Improve Your Forecasting and Strategic-Planning Skills: Enhance your ability to predict future financial performance and make informed strategic decisions.
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MBA Fundamentals helps you to master core business basics, providing the knowledge and tools necessary to drive your business forward.
MBA Fundamentals Accounting and Finance chapters:
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Chapter 1: Financial Accounting Basics
Chapter 2: The Accounting Process and Cycle
Chapter 3: The Balance Sheet
Chapter 4: The Income Statement and Retained Earnings
Chapter 5: The Statement of Cash Flows
Chapter 6: Working Capital
Chapter 7: Property, Plant, and Equipment, and Intangible Assets
Chapter 8: Liabilities
Chapter 9: Managerial and Cost Accounting
Chapter 10: Cost Behavior
Chapter 11: Pricing
Chapter 12: Financial Statement Analysis
Chapter 13: Preparing Pro Forma Financial Statements and Financial Forecasting
Chapter 14: Budgeting and Responsibility Accounting
Chapter 15: Time Value of Money: The Math of Finance
Chapter 16: Bond and Stock Valuation
Chapter 17: Cost of Capital
Chapter 18: Capital Budgeting Cash Flows
Chapter 19: Capital Budgeting Techniques
About the Author:
Michael P. Griffin is a graduate of Providence College (B.S. 1980) and Bryant University (M.B.A. 1982). For over 35 years, Griffin, an Associate Teaching Professor, has taught accounting and finance, full-time in the Charlton College of Business at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for more than 35 years. Griffin has won many teaching awards during his tenure at UMASS Dartmouth and designed and oversaw a very successful business internship program while partnering with many well know corporations and CPA firms.
Michael has worked for a number of employers including Sears Roebuck and Company, Rhode Island Hospital Trust, Fleet National Bank, E.F. Hutton and Company, and the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and holds the designations of Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and Certified Financial Manager (CFM); both are awarded by the Institute of Management Accountants. He also holds the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC®) designation from the American College.
Griffin is the author of many business books and has developed several software packages both for commercial and academic use. He has been an editorial consultant to a number of publishers, including KMT Software, TemplateZone, McGraw-Hill, Irwin, Harvard Business Publications, John Wiley, LearningExpress(EBSCO), Addison Wesley, and Prentice Hall and has been a consultant for software content development for dozens of projects in the area of accounting, business finance, and personal financial planning.