Budgeting ? La Carte: Essential Tools for Harried Business Managers

By John A. Tracy

Book Overview

As a busy business manager, would you like to spend less time budgeting, and learn more from the budgeting you do? If you answer yes, then Budgeting A la Carte is the book for you. Most books on budgeting advocate a comprehensive, "seven course dinner" budgeting system. But unless you're the CEO of a major corporation, this is too much information--maybe way too much. What you need instead is Budgeting A la Carte: a menu of budgeting options that allows you to pick and choose only those items that suit your taste, appetite, and business situation. Explained in detail by bestselling financial author John A. Tracy, this comprehensive resource covers the full range of budgeting procedures, including: Income Statements Balance Sheets Operating Ratios Profitability Cash Flow Price and Volume Tradeoffs Cost Allocations Capital Investments And more . . . Budgeting, Tracy shows, is not an end in itself. It's a set of tools you can use to maximize financial performance and position. With Budgeting A la Carte, you'll control the tools, and you can decide just how much and what kind of budgeting is right for your business. Also by John A. Tracy HOW TO READ A FINANCIAL REPORT For MANAGERS, ENTREPRENEURS, LENDERS, LAWYERS, AND INVESTORS " If] you would like to have a minimal understanding of the numbers that make up a balance sheet, income, and cash flow statement . . . then How to Read a Financial Report might be just what you are looking for. Mr. Tracy's book explains in plain English the meaning of the major terms used in financial statements . . ."--The Wall Street Journal

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471109282
• ISBN13: 9780471109280
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.9" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

A useful book on management accounting

A concise yet very informative book for managers interested in running a business 'by the numbers'. It is written in a very practical and easy-to-understand manner. I utilize many of Tracy's ideas in my own job. The book deals not only with budgeting but with management reporting, break-even analysis, project anlysis, and accounting issues in both service and manufacturing enviroments.