Practical Financial Decision Making: Essential Tools

In today’s unsettled economy every accounting and finance manager should command the expertise needed to gather, process and analyze the information required to make sound business decisions. This publication presents and explores the key analytical tools that you need to make well-informed and effective choices in your organization’s dynamic business environment. These tools and techniques include:

• Identifying and addressing structural blockages to decision making
• Data management, information collection and analysis
• Improving operations
• Model building and designing tests
• Valuing and financing acquisitions and divestitures
• Evaluating capital programs and other long-term investments

With easy-to-understand explanations and examples, you will be able to apply techniques to uncover data patterns and use analytical tools for problem solving. You can improve your organization’s operations, planning and budgeting results with proven methods to analyze and evaluate finance and accounting operations.