Author Overview

When I originally wrote this book, there was an almost total absence of guidance available for the Chief Financial Officer. Though a great deal of knowledge had been summarized in various books for controllers (see my own Controllership book), there were many missing topics that a CFO must have available. Consequently, I brought together a great deal of material from my other books, while also adding many new pages of material to arrive at the single most comprehensive CFO book on the market. This third edition includes new material on cash management, investing funds, foreign exchange risk management, and many updates to the mergers and acquisitions chapter.

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Contents

Part 1 Overview
1 CFO’s Place in the Corporation
2 Financial Strategy
3 Tax Strategy
4 Information Technology Strategy

Part 2 Accounting
5 Performance Measurement Systems
6 Control Systems
7 Audit Function

Part 3 Financial Analysis
8 Cost of Capital
9 Capital Budgeting
10 Other Financial Analysis Topics

Part 4 Funding
11 Cash Management and Consolidation
12 Investing Excess Funds
13 Obtaining Debt Financing
14 Obtaining Equity Financing

Part 5 Publicly Held Company
15 Initial Public Offering
16 Reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission
17 Investment Community
18 Taking a Company Private

Part 6 Management.
19 Risk Management
20 Risk Management - Foreign Exchange
21 Outsourcing the Accounting and Finance Functions
22 Mergers and Acquisitions

Part 7 Other Topics
23 Employee Compensation
24 Bankruptcy

Appendices
A New CFO Checklist
B Performance Measurement Checklist
C Due Diligence Checklist

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