Key Management Ratios, 4th edition
The 100+ Ratios Every Manager Needs to Know

By Ciaran Walsh
September 2011
Pearson Education
Distributed by Trans-Atlantic Publications Inc.
ISBN: 9780273761570
393 Pages, Illustrated
$39.50 Paper Original

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Table of Contents

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Key for symbols

PART I FOUNDATIONS
1 Background
2 Financial statements
3 Balance sheet terms
4 Profit and loss account

PART II OPERATING PERFORMANCE
5 Measures of performance
6 Operating performance
7 Performance drivers

PART III CORPORATE LIQUIDITY
8 Cash flow cycle
9 Liquidity
10 Financial strength
11 Cash flow

PART IV DETERMINANTS OF CORPORATE VALUE
12 Corporate valuation
13 Financial leverage and corporate valuation
14 Growth

PART V MANAGEMENT DECISION-MAKING
15 Cost, volume and price relationships
16 Investment ratios
17 Shareholder value added (SVA)
18 Acquisition analysis
19 Integrity of account statements

Appendix 1: Special items
Appendix 2: Companies used in the sample
Appendix 3: Full set of ratio charts from sample companies
Appendix 4: Discounting and compounding tables
Glossary

Index

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