<p><div><b>The knowledge and tools every professional needs to make better financial and business decisions.</p></b></div><div><br></div><div><p>Why this book is different to other finance books:</p></div><div><li> Quick and easy to use</div><div></li><li> Spotlights ‘what you need to know'</li></div><div><li> Requires no prior finance&nbsp;knowledge </li></div><div><li> Practical and real-world focus </li></div><div><li> Written by practitioners</div></li>

<p>Introduction</p><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 1 Finance Fundamentals</strong></div><div>1 Finance personnel and systems</div><div>2 Cash versus accruals accounting</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 2 Primary Financial Statements</strong></div><div>3 Profit and loss (P&amp;L)</div><div>4 The balance sheet</div><div>5 Cash flow statement</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 3 Key Elements of Financial Statements</strong></div><div>6 Revenue recognition</div><div>7 Opex and capex</div><div>8 Business tax</div><div>9 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation</div><div>10 Goodwill and other intangibles</div><div>11 Stock</div><div>12 Debtors and creditors</div><div>13 Prepayments and accruals</div><div>14 Provisions and contingencies</div><div>15 Capital and reserves</div><div>16 Group accounting</div><div>17 Revaluation</div><div>18 Impairment</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 4 Financial and Regulatory Environment</strong></div><div>19 Accounting and financial reporting standards</div><div>20 External financial audit</div><div>21 Information in the public domain</div><div>22 Corporate governance and whistleblowing</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 5 Assessing Financial Health</strong></div><div>23 Profitability performance measures</div><div>24 Working capital and liquidity management</div><div>25 Insolvency and going concern risk</div><div>26 Long-term solvency performance measures</div><div>27 Investor ratios</div><div>28 Business valuation</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 6 Sources of Business Finance</strong></div><div>29 Equity finance</div><div>30 Debt finance</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 7 Financial Management</strong></div><div>31 Management accounts</div><div>32 Profitable pricing</div><div>33 Profit planning</div><div>34 Budgeting and forecasting</div><div>35 Investment appraisal</div><div><br></div><div><strong>Part 8 Practical application</strong></div><div>36 Consolidate and apply</div><div>37 The reliability, relevance &amp; trustworthiness of financial statements</div><div>Appendix: Greggs plc 2020 Financial Statements</div><div>&nbsp;</div>

<p style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><font face="CALIBRI"><font size="2"><b>THE KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS EVERY PROFESSIONAL NEEDS, TO MAKE BETTER FINANCIAL AND BUSINESS DECISIONS.<br aria-hidden="true"></b><br aria-hidden="true">Why this book is different to other finance books:<br aria-hidden="true">• Quick and easy to use<br aria-hidden="true">• Spotlights “what you need to know”<br aria-hidden="true">• Requires no prior finance knowledge<br aria-hidden="true">• Practical and real-world focus<br aria-hidden="true">• Written by practitioners</font></font></p><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: inherit; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><span style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: blue !important; line-height: inherit; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif, serif, EmojiFont; font-size: 14px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; font-stretch: inherit;'><b>No knowledge required</b></span></div><div style='margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; line-height: inherit; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web (West European)", "Segoe UI", -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, Roboto, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;'><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">The book is purposefully designed to be quick and easy to use with no previous knowledge required to comprehend the concepts. We “tell you what you need to know” to quickly “get up to speed” in core finance concepts.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">A key feature of this book is that you do not have read it from cover to cover to make sense of finance. Each chapter is written as a “standalone” topic.&nbsp; This enables you to dip in and dip out of chapters. Further, we have taken otherwise complex topics and broken them down into key concepts that are explained in concise, easy to read sections.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue"><b>Practitioners not academics</b></font></span></font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><font color="blue"><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">Whilst not an academic book, it is also not a “simplistic” book.&nbsp; It is a&nbsp;</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;">practical</span><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">&nbsp;book because it has been written by practitioners. We include throughout this book our first-hand personal experiences gained from working in businesses across many industries and sectors, rather than replicating knowledge from academia.&nbsp;</span></font></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">In addition, the authors have spent countless hours instructing, teaching and training thousands of professionals from disciplines including marketing, sales, production, administration, HR and legal.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue"><b>Focused on business application</b></font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">The overwhelming majority of finance books available are better suited to trainee accountants because they take an academic approach to finance.&nbsp; Whilst necessary for accountants, they immerse the reader in the “detail”.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><font color="blue"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;">The Finance Book</span><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;">&nbsp;is written for non-finance people like you. It is aimed at those who work or aspire to work in business.</span></font></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">It will help professionals in business or thinking about a career in business including board directors, business managers, MBA students, graduates and undergraduates.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue"><b>Your book, your journey</b></font></span></font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">To make the book easy to read, we have used a consistent format across chapters. Within each chapter there are multiple cross references (and links) to other relevant chapters as they occur. This will enable you to review chapters and make connections relevant to you. Allow your curiosity to determine your path through the book.</font></span></p><p style='padding: 0px; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;'><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit;"><font color="blue">THE KNOWLEDGE AND TOOLS EVERY PROFESSIONAL NEEDS, TO MAKE BETTER DECISIONS FOR THEIR BUSINESS</font></span></p></div></div>

<p>Introduction</p><p><strong>Part 1 Finance Fundamentals</strong></p><p>1 Finance personnel and systems</p><p>2 Cash versus accruals accounting</p><p><strong>Part 2 Primary Financial Statements</strong></p><p>3 Profit and loss (P&amp;L)</p><p>4 The balance sheet</p><p>5 Cash flow statement</p><p><strong>Part 3 Key Elements of Financial Statements</strong></p><p>6 Revenue recognition</p><p>7 Opex and capex</p><p>8 Business tax</p><p>9 Tangible fixed assets and depreciation</p><p>10 Goodwill and other intangibles</p><p>11 Stock</p><p>12 Debtors and creditors</p><p>13 Prepayments and accruals</p><p>14 Provisions and contingencies</p><p>15 Capital and reserves</p><p>16 Group accounting</p><p>17 Revaluation</p><p>18 Impairment</p><p><strong>Part 4 Financial and Regulatory Environment</strong></p><p>19 Accounting and financial reporting standards</p><p>20 External financial audit</p><p>21 Information in the public domain</p><p>22 Corporate governance and whistleblowing</p><p><strong>Part 5 Assessing Financial Health</strong></p><p>23 Profitability performance measures</p><p>24 Working capital and liquidity management</p><p>25 Insolvency and going concern risk</p><p>26 Long-term solvency performance measures</p><p>27 Investor ratios</p><p>28 Business valuation</p><p><strong>Part 6 Sources of Business Finance</strong></p><p>29 Equity finance</p><p>30 Debt finance</p><p><strong>Part 7 Financial Management</strong></p><p>31 Management accounts</p><p>32 Profitable pricing</p><p>33 Profit planning</p><p>34 Budgeting and forecasting</p><p>35 Investment appraisal</p><p><strong>Part 8 Practical application</strong></p><p>36 Consolidate and apply</p><p>37 The reliability, relevance &amp; trustworthiness of financial statements</p><p>Appendix: Greggs plc 2020 Financial Statements</p> 

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