HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers

Name: HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers
Brand: Ascent Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Harvard Business Review
ISBN: 9781663723888

Author: Harvard Business Review

Series: HBR Guide

Narrator: Jonathan Yen

Unabridged: 3 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 11/29/2022

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics, Finance

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

Don't let your fear of finance get in the way of your success.

Can you prepare a breakeven analysis? Do you know the difference between an income statement and a balance sheet? Or understand why a business that's profitable can still go belly-up? Has your grasp of your company's numbers helped—or hurt—your career?

Whether you're new to finance or you just need a refresher, this go-to guide will give you the tools and confidence you need to master the fundamentals, as all good managers must.

The HBR Guide to Finance Basics for Managers will help you: learn the language of finance; compare your firm's financials with rivals'; shift your team's focus from revenues to profits; assess your vulnerability to industry downturns; use financial data to defend budget requests; and invest smartly through cost/benefit analysis.

About Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review is the leading destination for smart management thinking. Through its flagship magazine, twelve international licensed editions, books from Harvard Business Review Press, and digital content and tools published on HBR.org, Harvard Business Review provides professionals around the world with rigorous insights and best practices to lead themselves and their organizations more effectively and to make a positive impact.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Derek on March 12, 2013

While providing some good basics, the reading is jumpy and repetitive as it is simply a compilation of different HBR publications. In fact, two chapters (one right after the other) give contradictory reads on ROI thinking, which is hardly helpful for someone trying to learn the basics. Good to keep......more

Goodreads review by Colin on April 05, 2022

Helpful orientation for financial accounting in the first section. The rest was interesting business cases that helped to reinforce concepts, but a lot of the learning just needs to be hammered in. Improved from a 20% to a 60% on the quiz, but obviously still bad. Will supplement with youtube videos......more

Goodreads review by Giancarlo on October 20, 2017

Finance is pretty simple! This book is the bible to use it in order to manage your business. Great book.......more

Goodreads review by Farida on March 18, 2023

After reading Ram Charans “what a CEO wants you to know” this one was kind of anti climactic. My issue maybe was I assumed this would be more complex, yet it was nearly the same level of detail and maybe even too similar in the context even though it was supposed to be less story telling and more “t......more

Goodreads review by Mark on September 23, 2018

The "HBR Guide to" series is always reliable in content, applicability and (usually) ease of understanding for the non-expert. Finance Basics is also in that vein: Content is good; basic; clear, etc. However I'm going with 3 stars vs. 4 because as a non-finance guy (I get the numbers, I get the need......more