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Author:   Mike Bolton ,  Chris Singer
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781138732285

ISBN 10:   1138732281
Publication Date:   01 January 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I General Introduction: Introduction; Session selector; Session synopses; Glossary. Part II The Sessions: Session 1 What's This Business All About? Using a SWOT Analysis To Find Out: Creative Kitchens Ltd - its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Session 2 Finding Out Where The Money's Gone: How the money flows in and out; Last year's profit; What does the Profit and Loss Account show about our performance? Session 3 So You've Made a Profit? What Else Does The Profit and Loss Account Tell You? Which profit is the real profit?; More sales make us more money, don't they?; What does the Profit and Loss Account show about out costs?; What do we do now? Session 4 Have You Been Increasing Your Worth? What the Balance Sheet Tells You: What do we own and who paid for it?; What the last four years should have told them; How secure is the business? Session 5 What's Happened To The Flow of Money? Using Ratios To Find Out: Where has all the money gone?; Measuring the flow of money; How well are we using the money?; Using the pyramid of ratios. Session 6 Ratios Can Save Money and Make You More Profit: Where has all the profit gone?; Where have all the extra costs come from?; Where's the Work in Progress hiding?; Why so many Finished Goods?; Accounting policies need to be understood; Presentation of progress to the Managing Director. Session 7 Are Your Costs Behaving Themselves?: But surely a cost is just a cost?; The way costs behave; Labour costs should add value; Deviation isn't always a crime. Session 8 How The Figures Can Help You Make Better Marketing Decisions: How debtors dam up the cash flow; What should we do with the Overheads?; Prices, profits and breaking even; Sensitivity, or how break-even analysis can take away the pain.

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'As a former banker, small business advisor and tutor in Starting your own business , I was impressed with the approach and treatment of the materials. In conclusion, a comprehensive set of materials that I would recommend for trainers and consultants to use when conducting their own training sessions. If you are a trainer in this subject and are looking for good resource materials, at AGBP295 (less than a delegate rate?) they represent good value for money.' Institute of Training and Occupational Learning website 'The exercises abound with relevant information, either data or recorded discussions, task sheets, handouts and so on, and a solution to the task. I approached the review of this material with trepidation as I belong to the class of not really as financially aware as I should be , but I found the material and the guidance so helpful, user-friendly and comprehensive that it made me (well almost) want to dash out and run a workshop using the material.' Training Journal '...I found this pack useful and it contained many ideas that could be used by trainers for financial awareness, whether or not they feel financialy competent.' Training Zone 'The presentation of material is excellent and the approach taken is original and practical. This training package will be a very useful aid for non-finacncial managers requiring an introduction to financial awareness.' Economic Outlook and Business Review

Author Information

Mike Bolton worked in new product development for a number of years before joining the Business School of Leeds Polytechnic. Since then he has worked on consultancy projects including business planning, marketing and training services and has spent time in China, Uzbekistan and Azerbaijan. He first met his co-author working as Associate Director of Materials Development for the CESaME project, an EU funded project to develop a European network of business coaches. Chris Singer spent 16 years in ICL Sales and Marketing, finishing as Vice President of Marketing in the US. Since then he has been a founder of Aregon, originally a State-owned company formed to export British software; Managing Director of Granada Microcomputer Services, which he took from start-up to weekly sales of over AGBP200,000; and has founded Singer Electronics which was first into the market with digital voice recording. Since 1994 Chris has undertaken a number of consultancy assignments in Eastern Europe, principally in Russia, Transcaucasia, Mongolia and the Ukraine.

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