The Manager’s Pocket Calculator: A Quick Guide to Essential Business Formulas and Ratios

Your success or failure is reflected in one number: the bottom line. So you’d better get a handle on the numbers that influence it. The Manager’s Pocket Calculator gives you the essentials of budgeting and forecasting, financial analysis, reporting, interest and rate-of-return calculation, statistics, and more. Not just an overview, the book contains more than 100 formulas and ratios with numerical examples, spreadsheet entries, and step-by-step calculations. The Manager’s Pocket Calculator trains you in the application of mission-critical business fundamentals, better preparing you to: Create and justify budgets Excel in planning meetings concerning financial performance Craft reports and presentations demonstrating financial outcomes Communicate with internal and external accounting, auditing and other financial entities An indispensable, everyday business tool, The Manager’s Pocket Calculator makes you more than a manager. It makes you a powerful architect of your organization’s financial stability.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: Compound Interest: The Power of Money
CHAPTER 2: Present Value and Sinking Funds
CHAPTER 3: Rates of Return
CHAPTER 4: Calculating Breakeven and After-Tax Profit
CHAPTER 5: Financial Reporting Formulas: The Balance Sheet
CHAPTER 6: Financial Reporting Formulas: The Income Statement
CHAPTER 7: Depreciation Calculations
CHAPTER 8: Bringing Reports to Life: Powerful Arguments with the Numbers
CHAPTER 9: Budgeting Calculations: Assumptions and Prorations
CHAPTER 10: Statistics for Effective Reporting
CHAPTER 11: Incredible Math Shortcuts
CHAPTER 12: Incredible Conversion, Measurement, and Time Shortcuts
APPENDIX: Summary of Formulas