Finance Essentials for Managers

Designed for the nonfinancial manager, this hands-on CD-ROM program covers three topic modules designed to help you better understand key financial concepts and statements and the meaning behind "those numbers." The topics include Budgeting, Finance Essentials, and Preparing a Business Plan. Budgeting helps you build better budgets in less time and includes an easy-to-use budget template. Finance Essentials describes in a clear and concise manner financial statements and analysis and includes an interactive spreadsheet you can use to enter your own data and explore "what if" scenarios useful for financial planning. Preparing a Business Plan walks you through the whole process and provides a sample business plan for you to use. Each module brings you background concepts and tactical advice and includes tips, a self-test, tools, and interactive audio-enhanced exercises to help you practice and apply what you've learned. Also included in each topic is a relevant, full-text article from Harvard Business Review or a Harvard Business School Publishing newsletter.