Steven M. Bragg

The New Controller Guidebook covers every aspect of being a controller, including the management of accounts payable, cash, collections, inventory, payroll, and more. It also shows you how to close the books, which reports to issue to the management team, how to create a budget, and how to select and install an accounting computer system. There are review questions and answers at the end of every chapter.

The New Controller Guidebook

Controller's Guide to Costing

The vest pocket controller

tools and strategies

Cost reduction analysis

Budgeting: A Comprehensive Guide shows you how to assemble a complete system of budgets while also addressing several variations on the basic budgeting concept - the flexible budget and the zero-base budget. The book also delves into how to operate a business without a budget. Finally, there are a number of procedures, controls, and reports designed to complement a budget. There are review questions and answers at the end of every chapter.

A Comprehensive Guide

Budgeting

Cost Accounting

Cost Accounting Fundamentals describes the key cost accounting concepts that most concern the practicing cost accountant, illustrates them with numerous examples, and adds review questions and answers to improve comprehension. The book is designed for both professional accountants and students, since both can benefit from its detailed descriptions of inventory valuation methods, product pricing techniques, cost analysis methods, and more. Cost Accounting Fundamentals includes such key topics as job costing, process costing, standard costing, target costing, transfer pricing, activity-based costing, constraint analysis, and capital budgeting analysis.

Cost Accounting Fundamentals

Janice M. Roehl-Anderson

The Work of the Managerial Accountant

The Controller's Function

Roles and Responsibilities for The First Years

The Controller's Guide

Controller's Guide to Planning and Controlling Operations

Financial Analysis

"This book is designed to give the new controller a firm foundation in the concepts of managing the accounting department, locating GAAP information, analyzing and knowing what to do with key accounting information, and setting up controls systems that reduce a company's risk of loss. These core areas are essentials to a controller's success. New to this edition will be a discussion of finance strategy; introduction of the accounting standards codification, update of the taxation strategy; and a new controller checklist will be added as an appendix"--

an introduction to what every financial manager must know

The essential controller

Accounting Best Practices

The accountant needs to be competent in many areas in order to be an effective controller - the person responsible for all accounting operations. The New Controller Guidebook covers every aspect of being a controller, including the management of accounts payable, cash, credit, collections, inventory, payroll, and more. The book also shows you how to close the books, which reports to issue to the management team, how to create a budget, and how to select and install an accounting computer system. In short, this book provides the accountant with the most essential information needed to be a successful controller.

The New Controller Guidebook: Fifth Edition

Filled with pragmatic insights, proactive strategies, and best practices, The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual, Second Edition is destined to become your essential desktop companion. This thorough guidebook is essential reading for the CFO requiring an overview of strategies, measurement and control systems, financial analysis tools, funding sources, and management improvement tips.

The New CFO Financial Leadership Manual

A complete appraisal of analytical tools available to managers to assess performance Required reading for anyone starting, running, or growing a business, Business Ratios and Formulas, Third Edition puts answers at the fingertips of business managers, with nearly 250 operational criteria and clear, easy-to-understand explanations that can be used right away. The Third Edition includes twenty new measurements. Approximately 20 new measurements Offers a comprehensive resource of nearly 250 operational criteria An Appendix including a dictionary of accounting and finance terms A thorough list of every ratio and formula, and how to compile and interpret that information Also by Steven M. Bragg: Fast Close: A Guide to Closing the Books Quickly, Second Edition An ideal tool for measuring corporate performance, this authoritative resource allows you to pick and choose the tools you need to best assess your organization's performance.

Business Ratios and Formulas

A one-stop resource for setting up or improving an existing payroll system! The most comprehensive resource available on the subject, Accounting for Payroll: A Comprehensive Guide provides up-to-date information to enable users to handle payroll accounting in the most cost-effective manner. From creating a system from scratch to setting up a payroll department to record-keeping and journal entries, Accounting for Payroll provides the most authoritative information on the entire payroll process. Ideal for anyone new to the payroll system or as a skill-honing tool for those already immersed in the field, this hands-on reference provides step-by-step instructions for setting up a well-organized payroll system or improving an existing one.

Accounting for Payroll

The definitive guide to all things IFRS IFRS Made Easy provides complete, easy-to-navigate coverage of all International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRSs) with concise explanations and hundreds of supporting examples. This reference tool goes anywhere you go-to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting, with on-the-spot answers to any questions that arise. Practical, plain -language explanation of the international financial accounting and reporting standards Summarizes International Financial Reporting Standards Liberally sprinkled with definitions and examples Notes applicable IFRS source documents Written for every company struggling with the impact of convergence, IFRS Made Easy clearly explains how IFRS will impact your company, how you will need to account for various specific items, and more. This book is filled with practical techniques and rules of thumb for understanding the day-to-day IFRS issues every accountant, controller or CFO is sure to face-and puts all the answers you need at your fingertips.

IFRS Made Easy

Barry J. Epstein

Ralph Nach

This is a thorough study and analysis of all generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) for 2008, restating the original, highly technical pronouncements in easy-to-understand terms while providing battle-tested implementation guidance and real-world examples.

Interpretation and Application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles

Wiley GAAP 2008

Praise for Throughput Accounting: A Guide to Constraint Management "Throughput Accounting provides managers with a fresh set of eyes to identify and control bottlenecks. The drum, buffer, and rope will become part of the cost accounting lexicon in the future." —Geoffrey Garland, Controller, StacoSwitch, Inc. "This is good stuff! Steven Bragg has introduced us to an accounting structure that will enhance our bottom line utilizing throughput accounting methodology. Finally! We have a presentable means to transform a company's financial functions to support the cultural change to throughput accounting." —Rick J. Stevens, President, LeanThinkingbyAccountants, LLC "A thought-provoking, insightful, and useful book that explains how older conventions of accounting can lead to poor management decisions. Instead of focusing on typical cost-cutting methods only, Mr. Bragg provides CFOs with a systemic approach on how to instead focus on maximizing profits and become better business partners." —Arif Iqball, Executive Director and CFO, Avon Products Co. Ltd. Japan "Throughput Accounting by Steve Bragg presents a new way to evaluate and apply the concepts of cost accounting with greater impact on operational efficiencies. An interesting, understandable, and useful guide for anyone who needs a valuable source of information and ideas relating to financial and accounting affairs." —Carlos Millan, Director of Finance and Operations, NOLA, Grupo Quanam Throughput Accounting addresses every possible area of constraint management that would be of interest to an accountant. This groundbreaking book includes chapters covering financial analysis scenarios with case studies that show specifically how throughput accounting can be used to find the best solutions in a large number of real-world situations. If you are an accounting manager, financial analyst, production planner, or production manager, Throughput Accounting contains the tools you need to improve your company's performance.

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