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Financial Accounting for Executives
About the Book

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Book Organization

A succinct, flexible 12-chapter structure fits EMBA, full-time, part-time, and evening MBA programs. This book provides students with the tools and insights necessary to make informed business decisions ranging from performance evaluation to firm valuation. The chapters are organized around a decision-focused structure. The first four chapters introduce the basic financial statements and tools for financial analysis:

I. The Foundations of Accounting and Financial Statement Analysis (Chapters 1–4)

The next seven chapters provide additional structure for this analysis, with each chapter including a section that discusses how the chapter’s content should be analyzed and how that analysis will impact firm value:

II. Operating Resources and Decisions (Chapters 5–6)
III. Investing Resources and Decisions (Chapters 7–8)
IV. Financing Resources and Decisions (Chapters 9–11)

Finally, chapter 12 introduces various methodologies to assess the value of a company:

V. Equity Valuation (Chapter 12)