The Vest Pocket Cfo

"The Vest Pocket CFO"--the convenient, comprehensive reference that professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years--is now updated in a new Third Edition to give today's busy financial managers and executives the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere--to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving day-to-day accounting issues, "The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition" helps you quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. In an easy-to-use Q&A format, the new edition includes: New chapters on How to Value Business and Securities and Business Strategies and Shareholder Value Analysis

Useful topics such as the new status of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and corporate governance

Expanded coverage of cost management and analysis including life-cycle costing, act-based management (ABM), target costing and pricing, balanced scorecard, total quality management (TQM), and quality costs

Updated coverage of financial modeling software and expansion on Enterprise Risk Management

"The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition" is a powerful companion for the complex, ever-changing world of accounting and finance.

The thorough reference that goes wherever you go

"The Vest Pocket CFO" is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy Q&A format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.