Discover how to raise money under new provisions in the recently enacted JOBS Act. Regulation A+: How the JOBS Act Creates Opportunities for Entrepreneurs and Investors will guide and advise executives of emerging growth companies, entrepreneurs, financial advisers, venture capitalists, investment bankers, securities lawyers, finance and MBA students, and others on how to raise up to $50 million a year through streamlined regulations.Signed by President Obama on April 5, 2...

They say that numbers don’t lie, but what if you can’t even read them? Discover how great managers use financial data to guide decisions.Financial analysis reports, budgeting reports, forecasting and measuring reports--sometimes they all run together, don’t they? The Essentials of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers is here to help.This new edition of a business classic demystifies finance and accounting and gives managers the tools th...

Talking mergers and acquisitions for small- to mid-sized companies can sound exciting as the architects behind the deals are wide-eyed with effective growth strategies.However, these complex transactions carry significant risk, and it is absolutely vital for all involved in the deal to make sure they are guarding themselves against costly mistakes that have been the downfall for many leaders and organizations before them.Complete with expert advice, case st...

Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, Third Edition, introduces the reader to financial terminology, relates financial measures to operating information, enables the student to understand and apply financial measures to operating performance, and ties all of this to the current business environment. Today’s managers, whether supervisors or senior executives, are expected to understand and use financial and operational measures, prepare and utilize budgets, respond to inquiries ...

This text is designed to teach accurate financial accounting, which has the communication of relevant financial information to internal and external users as its primary subject. This volume represents to focus on new directions with special emphasis on concepts, rational, measurement, and reporting. With this in mind, I have attempted to impart these principles in this book. All of the financial terms are described using easy-to-understand terminology, as are the financial ratios. I belie...

This book is a gold mine of wisdom and a must read for the young graduates and entrepreneurs entering their practical life in the real world after their basic or advanced education. It provides guidelines in business matters, loans and banking, providing bankers perspective to the entrepreneurs on borrowing matters. The deep recession of 2007, has been stubbornly overshadowing the developed world. Many Western countries are struggling with much larger debts and very high unemployment rates...

The concept of SILVER BULLET INVESTING is going small in a big way. It is where small investors collectively can take on the role of a more financially powerful organization and achieve more for their capital with reduced risk of loss. Investing is not easy and it is risky. You can lose your money, even when you do everything that may appear to be right. Ownership of an apartment, office, shopping center, or an industrial multi-unit property that gives diversity of income at...

Ignorance is no longer an excuse. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 makes CEO's and CFO's personally responsible, not only for the accuracy of their financial statements, but also for reporting on the effectiveness of their company's internal controls.This fast and easy-to-read revised 2nd edition of this book describes, in plain language, what the U.S. Sarbanes-Oxley Act says, it explains why the Act came into effect, and shows what companies, and company executives, need to do to en...

Pessimists see distressed M&A . . .Optimists see distressed M&AOpportunities abound in “bankruptcy beauties”—both in good times and bad. Distressed mergers and acquisitions used to be the domain of a handful of specialists, who generated handsome profits by unlocking value in troubled companies. Now, you can learn the secrets for participating in these deals with knowledge and confidence. The Art of Distressed M&A provides the crit...

Techniques to uncover and avoid accounting frauds and scamsInflated profits . . . Suspicious write-offs . . . Shifted expenses . . . These and other dubious financial maneuvers have taken on a contemporary twist as companies pull out the stops in seeking to satisfy Wall Street. Financial Shenanigans pulls back the curtain on the current climate of accounting fraud. It presents tools that anyone who is potentially affected by misleading business valuationsfrom investors and lenders to manag...

"Every entrepreneur should read this book, ideally before they start their next business. The insights into finance and financial planning should help the entrepreneur not make many of the mistakes I did!"Jim Beach, Director of Education at The Entrepreneur School and author of School for Start-Ups"An exhaustive and invaluable resource for companies seeking funding at any stage of their life cycle."Donald J. Mullineaux, DuPont Chair i...

Money travels the modern world in disguise. It looks like a convention of human exchange - a commodity like gold or a medium like language. But its history reveals that money is a very different matter. It is an institution engineered by political communities to mark and mobilize resources. As societies change the way they create money, they change the market itself - along with the rules that structure it, the politics and ideas that shape it, and the benefits that flow from it. One parti...