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The thorough reference that goes wherever you go

The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today''s busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.

  • Covers all major developments in finance and accounting every CFO needs to know about including IFRS, Web-based planning, and ranging from financial reporting and internal control to financial decision making for shareholder value maximization
  • Includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports
  • Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book, as well as coverage of International Financial Reporting St

    Table of Contents

    What This Book Will Do for You xv

    PART ONE: REPORTS AND FILINGS

    1: Chief Financial Offi cer’s Role and Reports 3

    Role of the Chief Financial Offi cer 3

    Governmental Reporting 12

    Reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 12

    XBRL Reporting 13

    Other Reporting 14

    2: Securities and Exchange Commission Filings 15

    SEC Rules 15

    S Forms 16

    SEC Regulations 17

    SOX Reporting Requirements 19

    PART TWO: FINANCIAL REPORTING

    3: Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement 27

    How Is the Income Statement Presented? 27

    Revenue Recognition 30

    Construction Contracts 31

    Expense Recognition 37

    4: Financial Statement Reporting: The Balance Sheet 45

    Assets 45

    Accounts Receivable 46

    Inventory 49

    Fixed Assets 54

    Disclosure 62

    Liabilities 65

    Accounting for Compensated Absences 72

    Environmental Obligations 74

    Exit or Disposal Activities 75Fair Value Measurements 76

    Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities 78

    Statement of Cash Flows 80

    Available-for-Sale and Held-to-Maturity Securities 82

    5: Statement of Cash Flows 95

    Classifi cations of Cash Flow 95

    Analysis of the Statement of Cash Flows 100

    6: Accounting and Disclosures 107

    Accounting Changes 107

    Futures Contracts 119

    Various Disclosures 122

    7: Key Financial Accounting Areas 125

    Consolidation 125

    Investments in Stocks and Bonds 127

    Leases 138

    Pension Plans 147

    Postretirement Benefi ts Excluding Pensions 158

    Income Tax Allocation 161

    Deferred Tax Liability versus Deferred Tax Asset 164

    Tax Rates 167

    Foreign Currency Accounting 169

    Translation of Foreign Currency Statements When the Foreign Currency Is the Functional Currency 172

    International Financial Reporting Standards 177

    8: Interim and Segmental Reporting 185

    Interim Reporting 185

    Segmental Reporting 188

    PART THREE: COST MANAGEMENT AND IT SYSTEMS

    9: Cost Management and Analysis 197

    What Is Cost Management and Analysis? 197

    Strategic Cost Management 198

    Overhead Costing 199

    Activity-Based Costing 205

    Activity-Based Management 210

    Target Costing and Pricing 214

    10: Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis and Leverage 219

    Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis 219

    What-If Analysis 223Sales-Mix Analysis 225

    CVP Analysis for Nonprofit Organizations 227

    Leverage 228

    11: Short-Term Decisions 233

    Relevant Costs 233

    Best Use of Scarce Resources 241

    Theory of Constraints 242

    12: Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting 245

    Financial Forecasting: The Percent-of-Sales Method 245

    Budgeting 247

    Some Financial Calculations 257

    Budgeting Software 257

    Using an Electronic Spreadsheet to Develop a Budget Plan 257

    Latest Generation of Budgeting and Planning Software and E-Budgeting 259

    13: Risk Management 261

    Enterprise Risk Management 261

    An Approach to Risk Management 263

    A Close Look at Risk Management 264

    How to Reduce Investment Risk: Diversify 267

    Beta—The Capital Asset Pricing Model 271

    Arbitrage Pricing Model 272

    14: Capital Budgeting and Real Options 275

    Time Value Fundamentals 276

    Popular Evaluation Techniques 280

    Limited Funds for Capital Spending 286

    Real Options 289

    Discovery-Driven Planning 290

    Effect of Income Taxes on Capital Budgeting Decisions 290

    15: The What and Why of Responsibility Accounting 297

    Responsibility Accounting Basics 297

    Cost Center Performance and Standard Costs 298

    Flexible Budgets and Performance Reports 304

    Production Mix and Yield Variances 308

    16: Control of Profit Centers 313

    How Do You Evaluate Profit Centers? 313

    Profit Variance Analysis 315

    17: Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing 323

    Rate of Return on Investment 323

    Residual Income 324

    Investment Decisions under ROI and RI 324

    Transfer Pricing 325

    18: How to Analyze and Improve Corporate

    Profi tability and Shareholder Value 331

    Measures of Managerial Performance and Shareholder Return 331

    Sustainable Rate of Growth 339

    Economic Value Added 340

    Balanced Scorecard 345

    19: Information Technology and IT Systems 349

    Computer Technologies Available for Business 349

    Role of Information Systems in the Strategic Plan 350

    Management Information Systems 351

    Who Uses Executive Information Systems? 351

    Value Chain Management Software 353

    Extensible Business Reporting Language 356

    Web 2.0 357

    Cloud Computing and Competitive Advantage 358

    Mobile Computing (Wireless Technology) 360

    Handheld Device Security and Contingency Planning 362

    Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning 363

    CFO’s View of Information Technology: A Current Survey 364

    PART FOUR: MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

    20: Working Capital and Cash Management 369

    Evaluating Working Capital 369

    Cash Management 370

    Cash Management Models 378

    Banking Relationships 381

    International Cash Management 382

    21: Management of Accounts Receivable 385

    Managing Receivables 385

    Investment in Accounts Receivable 388

    22: Inventory Management 395

    Inventory Recording and Control 395

    Inventory Costs 401

    Economic Order Quantity 402

    Reorder Point 403

    How to Find the Optimal Safety Stock Size 406

    ABC Inventory Control 409

    Service Business 409

    23: Management of Payables 411

    Accounts Payable System 411

    Managing Payables 413

    PART FIVE: FINANCING THE BUSINESS

    24: Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing 417

    Short-Term Financing 417

    Intermediate-Term Financing 433

    25: Long-Term Financing 439

    Types of Long-Term Debt and When Each Should Be Used 440

    Issuance of Equity Securities 448

    Financing Strategy 456

    26: Warrants and Convertibles 465

    Warrants 465

    Convertible Securities 467

    27: Cost of Capital and Capital Structure Decisions 475

    Individual Costs of Capital 475

    Weights 479

    EBIT–EPS Approach to Capital Structure Decisions 482

    Analysis of Corporate Cash Flows 485

    Coverage Ratios 485

    Capital Structure Decisions 487

    28: Dividend Policy 489

    Types of Dividend Policies 489

    Variables to Be Considered 491

    29: Financial Management of Multinational Corporations 495

    Financial Management Essentials for MNCs 495

    Foreign Exchange Market 496

    Financial Strategies 499

    Types of Foreign Exchange Exposure 499

    Interest Rate Parity 505

    Purchasing Power Parity 506

    Appraising Foreign Investments 507

    Financing 509

    Analysis of Foreign Investments 512

    PART SIX: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, INSURANCE AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS, AND ECONOMICS

    30: Financial Statement Analysis 521

    Financial Analysis Essentials 521

    Balance Sheet Analysis 523

    Potential for Business Failure 540

    Income Statement Analysis 543

    Market Value Ratios 549

    Analyzing the Financial Structure of the Firm 550

    Product Line Measures 553

    Industry Characteristics Indicative of Greater Risk 555

    Considerations in Foreign Operations 556

    31: Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs 557

    Control Reports 557

    Control of Costs 560

    Performance Measures 562

    Business Processes 564

    32: Insurance and Legal Considerations 567

    Insurance Protection 567

    Types of Insurance 569

    Medical and Catastrophe Coverage 573

    Liability Insurance Coverage for CFOs 575

    Business Law 575

    33: Reading Economic Indicators 577

    How Can You Keep Track of the Economy with Economic and Monetary Indicators? 577

    Housing-Related Measures 582

    Indices of Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Economic Indicators 583

    Other Important Economic Indices 585

    Monetary Indicators and How They Impact the Economy 586

    Understanding Economic Data and Indicators 592

    Economic Indicators and Stocks and Businesses 593

    Economic Indicators and Bond Yields 593

    PART SEVEN: LIQUIDITY AND TREASURY

    34: Corporate Investments in Securities 597

    Cash and Liquidity Management 597

    Terms and Features of Bonds 600

    Other Fixed Income Investments 609

    Money Market Preferred Stock 614

    Private Equity 615

    Current Trends in Liquidity Management Strategy 616

    PART EIGHT: TAXATION

    35: Tax Factors in Financial Decision Making 621

    What Should You Know about Taxes? 621

    Gross Income 622

    Depreciation 624

    Amortization 624

    Tax Planning 626

    PART NINE: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTITURES, FAILURE, AND REORGANIZATION

    36: Mergers and Acquisitions 631

    Valuation 631

    Fair Market Value of Net Assets 639

    Capitalization of Revenue 640

    Price/Earnings Ratio 641

    Similar Businesses 642

    Sales of Stock 643

    Combination of Methods 643

    Successful Strategy for Mergers and Acquisitions 644

    37: Divestiture 645

    Why Divest? 645

    Asset Valuation Methods 647

    Profi tability Methods 648

    Market-Based Comparisons 648

    Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 649

    Divestiture with Uncertainty 651

    38: Forecasting Corporate Financial Distress 655

    Prediction Models 656

    Z-Score Model 656

    Applications 657

    39: Failure and Reorganization 667

    Business Failure 667

    Reorganization 669

    40: Valuation of Bonds and Stocks 679

    How to Value a Security 679

    How to Value Bonds 680

    How to Value Preferred Stock 683

    How to Value Common Stock 684

    Price/Earnings Ratio Approaches 688

    Other Pragmatic Approaches 693

    The Bottom Line 694

    41: Financial Statement Analysis: Key Financial Ratios and Metrics for Nonprofits 697

    Trend Analysis 698

    Analysis of the Balance Sheet 699

    Liquidity Analysis 699

    Appraisal of Solvency, Capital Structure, and Net Assets (Fund Balance) 704

    Evaluation of the Statement of Activities 704

    Performance Metrics 707

    Spotting Potential Bankruptcy and Avoiding Financial Problems 711

    Case Study in Financial Statement Analysis 714

    Appendix 725

    About the Authors 729

    Index 731

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      Book Synopsis
      The thorough reference that goes wherever you go

      The Complete CFO Reference is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today''s busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.

      • Covers all major developments in finance and accounting every CFO needs to know about including IFRS, Web-based planning, and ranging from financial reporting and internal control to financial decision making for shareholder value maximization
      • Includes tables, forms, checklists, questionnaires, practical tips, and sample reports
      • Incorporates Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) throughout the book, as well as coverage of International Financial Reporting St

        Table of Contents

        What This Book Will Do for You xv

        PART ONE: REPORTS AND FILINGS

        1: Chief Financial Offi cer’s Role and Reports 3

        Role of the Chief Financial Offi cer 3

        Governmental Reporting 12

        Reporting under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 12

        XBRL Reporting 13

        Other Reporting 14

        2: Securities and Exchange Commission Filings 15

        SEC Rules 15

        S Forms 16

        SEC Regulations 17

        SOX Reporting Requirements 19

        PART TWO: FINANCIAL REPORTING

        3: Financial Statement Reporting: The Income Statement 27

        How Is the Income Statement Presented? 27

        Revenue Recognition 30

        Construction Contracts 31

        Expense Recognition 37

        4: Financial Statement Reporting: The Balance Sheet 45

        Assets 45

        Accounts Receivable 46

        Inventory 49

        Fixed Assets 54

        Disclosure 62

        Liabilities 65

        Accounting for Compensated Absences 72

        Environmental Obligations 74

        Exit or Disposal Activities 75Fair Value Measurements 76

        Fair Value Option for Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities 78

        Statement of Cash Flows 80

        Available-for-Sale and Held-to-Maturity Securities 82

        5: Statement of Cash Flows 95

        Classifi cations of Cash Flow 95

        Analysis of the Statement of Cash Flows 100

        6: Accounting and Disclosures 107

        Accounting Changes 107

        Futures Contracts 119

        Various Disclosures 122

        7: Key Financial Accounting Areas 125

        Consolidation 125

        Investments in Stocks and Bonds 127

        Leases 138

        Pension Plans 147

        Postretirement Benefi ts Excluding Pensions 158

        Income Tax Allocation 161

        Deferred Tax Liability versus Deferred Tax Asset 164

        Tax Rates 167

        Foreign Currency Accounting 169

        Translation of Foreign Currency Statements When the Foreign Currency Is the Functional Currency 172

        International Financial Reporting Standards 177

        8: Interim and Segmental Reporting 185

        Interim Reporting 185

        Segmental Reporting 188

        PART THREE: COST MANAGEMENT AND IT SYSTEMS

        9: Cost Management and Analysis 197

        What Is Cost Management and Analysis? 197

        Strategic Cost Management 198

        Overhead Costing 199

        Activity-Based Costing 205

        Activity-Based Management 210

        Target Costing and Pricing 214

        10: Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis and Leverage 219

        Cost-Volume-Profi t Analysis 219

        What-If Analysis 223Sales-Mix Analysis 225

        CVP Analysis for Nonprofit Organizations 227

        Leverage 228

        11: Short-Term Decisions 233

        Relevant Costs 233

        Best Use of Scarce Resources 241

        Theory of Constraints 242

        12: Financial Forecasting, Planning, and Budgeting 245

        Financial Forecasting: The Percent-of-Sales Method 245

        Budgeting 247

        Some Financial Calculations 257

        Budgeting Software 257

        Using an Electronic Spreadsheet to Develop a Budget Plan 257

        Latest Generation of Budgeting and Planning Software and E-Budgeting 259

        13: Risk Management 261

        Enterprise Risk Management 261

        An Approach to Risk Management 263

        A Close Look at Risk Management 264

        How to Reduce Investment Risk: Diversify 267

        Beta—The Capital Asset Pricing Model 271

        Arbitrage Pricing Model 272

        14: Capital Budgeting and Real Options 275

        Time Value Fundamentals 276

        Popular Evaluation Techniques 280

        Limited Funds for Capital Spending 286

        Real Options 289

        Discovery-Driven Planning 290

        Effect of Income Taxes on Capital Budgeting Decisions 290

        15: The What and Why of Responsibility Accounting 297

        Responsibility Accounting Basics 297

        Cost Center Performance and Standard Costs 298

        Flexible Budgets and Performance Reports 304

        Production Mix and Yield Variances 308

        16: Control of Profit Centers 313

        How Do You Evaluate Profit Centers? 313

        Profit Variance Analysis 315

        17: Performance of Investment Centers and Transfer Pricing 323

        Rate of Return on Investment 323

        Residual Income 324

        Investment Decisions under ROI and RI 324

        Transfer Pricing 325

        18: How to Analyze and Improve Corporate

        Profi tability and Shareholder Value 331

        Measures of Managerial Performance and Shareholder Return 331

        Sustainable Rate of Growth 339

        Economic Value Added 340

        Balanced Scorecard 345

        19: Information Technology and IT Systems 349

        Computer Technologies Available for Business 349

        Role of Information Systems in the Strategic Plan 350

        Management Information Systems 351

        Who Uses Executive Information Systems? 351

        Value Chain Management Software 353

        Extensible Business Reporting Language 356

        Web 2.0 357

        Cloud Computing and Competitive Advantage 358

        Mobile Computing (Wireless Technology) 360

        Handheld Device Security and Contingency Planning 362

        Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning 363

        CFO’s View of Information Technology: A Current Survey 364

        PART FOUR: MANAGEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

        20: Working Capital and Cash Management 369

        Evaluating Working Capital 369

        Cash Management 370

        Cash Management Models 378

        Banking Relationships 381

        International Cash Management 382

        21: Management of Accounts Receivable 385

        Managing Receivables 385

        Investment in Accounts Receivable 388

        22: Inventory Management 395

        Inventory Recording and Control 395

        Inventory Costs 401

        Economic Order Quantity 402

        Reorder Point 403

        How to Find the Optimal Safety Stock Size 406

        ABC Inventory Control 409

        Service Business 409

        23: Management of Payables 411

        Accounts Payable System 411

        Managing Payables 413

        PART FIVE: FINANCING THE BUSINESS

        24: Short-Term and Intermediate-Term Financing 417

        Short-Term Financing 417

        Intermediate-Term Financing 433

        25: Long-Term Financing 439

        Types of Long-Term Debt and When Each Should Be Used 440

        Issuance of Equity Securities 448

        Financing Strategy 456

        26: Warrants and Convertibles 465

        Warrants 465

        Convertible Securities 467

        27: Cost of Capital and Capital Structure Decisions 475

        Individual Costs of Capital 475

        Weights 479

        EBIT–EPS Approach to Capital Structure Decisions 482

        Analysis of Corporate Cash Flows 485

        Coverage Ratios 485

        Capital Structure Decisions 487

        28: Dividend Policy 489

        Types of Dividend Policies 489

        Variables to Be Considered 491

        29: Financial Management of Multinational Corporations 495

        Financial Management Essentials for MNCs 495

        Foreign Exchange Market 496

        Financial Strategies 499

        Types of Foreign Exchange Exposure 499

        Interest Rate Parity 505

        Purchasing Power Parity 506

        Appraising Foreign Investments 507

        Financing 509

        Analysis of Foreign Investments 512

        PART SIX: FINANCIAL ANALYSIS, INSURANCE AND LEGAL CONSIDERATIONS, AND ECONOMICS

        30: Financial Statement Analysis 521

        Financial Analysis Essentials 521

        Balance Sheet Analysis 523

        Potential for Business Failure 540

        Income Statement Analysis 543

        Market Value Ratios 549

        Analyzing the Financial Structure of the Firm 550

        Product Line Measures 553

        Industry Characteristics Indicative of Greater Risk 555

        Considerations in Foreign Operations 556

        31: Analysis, Evaluation, and Control of Revenue and Costs 557

        Control Reports 557

        Control of Costs 560

        Performance Measures 562

        Business Processes 564

        32: Insurance and Legal Considerations 567

        Insurance Protection 567

        Types of Insurance 569

        Medical and Catastrophe Coverage 573

        Liability Insurance Coverage for CFOs 575

        Business Law 575

        33: Reading Economic Indicators 577

        How Can You Keep Track of the Economy with Economic and Monetary Indicators? 577

        Housing-Related Measures 582

        Indices of Leading, Coincident, and Lagging Economic Indicators 583

        Other Important Economic Indices 585

        Monetary Indicators and How They Impact the Economy 586

        Understanding Economic Data and Indicators 592

        Economic Indicators and Stocks and Businesses 593

        Economic Indicators and Bond Yields 593

        PART SEVEN: LIQUIDITY AND TREASURY

        34: Corporate Investments in Securities 597

        Cash and Liquidity Management 597

        Terms and Features of Bonds 600

        Other Fixed Income Investments 609

        Money Market Preferred Stock 614

        Private Equity 615

        Current Trends in Liquidity Management Strategy 616

        PART EIGHT: TAXATION

        35: Tax Factors in Financial Decision Making 621

        What Should You Know about Taxes? 621

        Gross Income 622

        Depreciation 624

        Amortization 624

        Tax Planning 626

        PART NINE: MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS, DIVESTITURES, FAILURE, AND REORGANIZATION

        36: Mergers and Acquisitions 631

        Valuation 631

        Fair Market Value of Net Assets 639

        Capitalization of Revenue 640

        Price/Earnings Ratio 641

        Similar Businesses 642

        Sales of Stock 643

        Combination of Methods 643

        Successful Strategy for Mergers and Acquisitions 644

        37: Divestiture 645

        Why Divest? 645

        Asset Valuation Methods 647

        Profi tability Methods 648

        Market-Based Comparisons 648

        Discounted Cash Flow Analysis 649

        Divestiture with Uncertainty 651

        38: Forecasting Corporate Financial Distress 655

        Prediction Models 656

        Z-Score Model 656

        Applications 657

        39: Failure and Reorganization 667

        Business Failure 667

        Reorganization 669

        40: Valuation of Bonds and Stocks 679

        How to Value a Security 679

        How to Value Bonds 680

        How to Value Preferred Stock 683

        How to Value Common Stock 684

        Price/Earnings Ratio Approaches 688

        Other Pragmatic Approaches 693

        The Bottom Line 694

        41: Financial Statement Analysis: Key Financial Ratios and Metrics for Nonprofits 697

        Trend Analysis 698

        Analysis of the Balance Sheet 699

        Liquidity Analysis 699

        Appraisal of Solvency, Capital Structure, and Net Assets (Fund Balance) 704

        Evaluation of the Statement of Activities 704

        Performance Metrics 707

        Spotting Potential Bankruptcy and Avoiding Financial Problems 711

        Case Study in Financial Statement Analysis 714

        Appendix 725

        About the Authors 729

        Index 731

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