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The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course In Finance for Non-Financial Managers

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A fully revised guidebook on the basics of accounting-- updated to cover an increasingly complex financial arena

In the wake of recent accounting scandals, most managers now realize they need to know more about the inner workings of finance. Many, however, don't know where they will find the time. The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Non-Financial Managers is designed to give readers a working mastery of all finance essentials in just 36 hours and has now been updated to help readers understand the substantial regulatory and practical changes that have taken place in the new world of business accounting. This hands-on workbook delivers its information in accessible and reader-friendly style, including self-study questions and case studies for each chapter. Information new to this edition includes:

Key updates to generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP)
Sections detailing what auditing is and what auditors do
Entirely new sections on pro forma financial statements, stock options as an expense, and more

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Author:	Robert Cooke
Paperback:	320 pages
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill
Publication Date:	February 04, 2004
Language:	English
ISBN:	0071425462
Product Width:	165.5 centimeters
Product Height:	230.5 centimeters
Product Weight:	1.06 pounds
Package Length:	9.5 inches
Package Width:	6.3 inches
Package Height:	0.8 inches
Package Weight:	1.05 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 9 reviews

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27 of 29 found the following review helpful:

Financial Statements simplified ... Jul 12, 2005 By Sachin Gaikwad "{ www.SachinOnline.com }"
Understanding financial statements is one of the key skills needed for any Investor, Employee or anyone interested in determining the health of a company. However, most of the books written on this subject are by the Accountants for the Accountants. Due to which they are hardly ever comprehensible to the lay person.

That's where this book comes into picture. "The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course in Finance for Nonfinancial Managers" is an excellent educational book which guides you through the concepts involved in financial statements like Income Statement, Balance Sheet in a simple and straight forward manner interspersed with a dash of humor here and there.

Robert Cooke's keep it simple approach, use of funny, fictitious companies like "Spouse House" in addition to use of comprehensible businesses like "Lemonade Stand" to build up the concepts behind financial statements makes it a fantastic book. Use of common place personal names like Rosie, Alice, Jeff etc makes the book an easy read and the story telling format nicely engages the reader.

Interestingly the Author/Publishers seem to have limited their audience by naming the book for "Non-Financial Managers". But in fact this book is for everyone ...

I would highly, highly recommend this book ... Definitely read it!

-Sachin

6 of 6 found the following review helpful:

review of Robert Cooke's Finance for Nonfinancial Managers Mar 03, 2010 By C. Byers
An excellent tutorial in small business financial understanding and management. Clear, well-written, highly palatable presentation of a normally dry subject. Emphasis on concepts, with enough practical numerical examples to make the point. The book will not make you an accountant, but it will give you basic skills, the ability to understand accountant-speak, and a good grasp of the underlying asset-based long range financial perspectives. I found the self-test exams at the ends of the chapters helpful. I have looked through a number of books on this subject and this is the only one I've found that gave me the information I wanted in such a direct and accessible way. Thank you Mr. Cooke!

3 of 3 found the following review helpful:

Accounting for the rest of us May 10, 2010 By M. Groble
I run a small and busy service business where I am one of the service providers. I have always used CPA's to do my taxes and have always been left feeling lost, confused, burdened by tons of reports they couldn't or didn't explain to me. I muddled through but enough was enough so I started to educate myself. This book is a gold mine. It is so readable, so understandable and so funny (yes, he puts in wonderful amusing examples -- Uncle Roscoe's yacht and such). I cannot think of anything I would expect to be more dull and boring that an accounting text but this one is fun to read, easy to understand and the problems at the end of the chapter are on point. I have to work on them to get the right solution thus reinforcing the principle. I would hardily recommend this book to anyone who has to handle money or talk to accountants. I feel confident to deal with my next accountant far more beneficially than past experiences have been.

2 of 2 found the following review helpful:

A thank-you to all his readers May 28, 2011 By Carolyn C. Cooke
As I cannot contact each reader/reviewer individually, I am sending this to you in this format.
I am Robert's widow and applied my secretarial skills to working with him on his books. In the process, I learned something about accounting and a lot about how hard a writer works to put out a quality product. I am certainly proud of him and recommend all of his books. He died in December 2009, but McGraw-Hill is bringing out a 3rd edition, revised by another writer but retaining the majority of Robert's text. It will be up to date, and, this too, I heartily recommend.
Again, thank you to those who took the time to review. You rate 5 stars with me!
Cay Cooke

3 of 5 found the following review helpful:

Not as bad as a root canal Aug 31, 2006 By DSP "techno geek"
I'm not a finance person nor do I plan to be one in the future. Will working in sales for the past 10 years I have become more aware of what I don't know and finance is surely one of those areas. This book covers the basic's of the financial world without putting you into a comma. The homework at the end of each chapter gets to be a bit of a pain since I was looking for the "concept" not trying to become an accountant. The best part of the book is it starts basic and builds off of that throughout the book which helped me understand some of the more complex financial terms. Good book for someone trying to get up to speed quick.

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