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BASIC
WM CONRADIE • CMW FOURIE
FINANCIAL
2nd edition
MANAGEMENT
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BASIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
BASIC WM CONRADIE & CMW FOURIE (GENERAL EDITORS) FINANCIAL
2nd edition
As finance is the life-blood of business, sound financial management is critical
not only for making a profit but to maintain the ongoing health and vitality of
an enterprise. Even well-established and prominent companies have gone out of
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business because of poor financial foresight.
In Basic Financial Management 2e, the authors explain the major elements and
principles of sound financial management in an accessible and practical way, making basic accounting, financial statements and business statistics easy to
understand even for new entrepreneurs.
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MANAGEMENT
As finance is the life-blood of business, sound financial management is critical not only for making a profit but to maintain the ongoing health and vitality of an enterprise. Even well-established and prominent companies have gone out of business because of poor financial foresight.
In Basic Financial Management 2e, the authors explain the major elements and principles of sound financial management in an accessible and practical way, making basic accounting, financial statements and business
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• An overview of the basic concepts of finance and what financial management means
• A logical introduction to the use of the accounting double entry principle
• Explanations of accounting formulas and statements demonstrated using practical examples
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• A detailed discussion on the increasingly important subject of business statistics
• Important concepts and definitions are highlighted
• Many practical examples and self-evaluation exercises.
In this second edition of Basic Financial Management, the layout has been simplified to enhance the reader’s focus on the content. Explanations have been clarified, additional examples of financial statements have been included, and several exercises and questions with answers have been added. The chapter on business statistics has been brought up to date with the latest statistical analysis methods.
This book gives students of Commerce and Financial Management the tools to grasp basic business functionality, ranging from everyday record-keeping to annual financial analysis. It will also be appreciated by anyone involved in the management of a business enterprise, from managers of SMMEs to CEOs of large corporations.
About the authors
Willie Co
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founder, owner and CEO of two companies.
Welma Fourie is currently Financial Manager at Fundi Capital (Pty) Ltd. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at Technikon SA in the Accounting Department.
Professor o
agement at the University of Johannesburg and is the
In this second edition of Basic Financial Management, the layout has been simplified to enhance the reader’s focus on the content. Explanations have been clarified, additional examples of financial statements have been included, and several exercises and questions with answers have been added. The chapter on business statistics has been brought up to date with the latest statistical analysis methods.
This book gives students of Commerce and Financial Management the tools to grasp basic business functionality, ranging from everyday record-keeping to annual financial analysis. It will also be appreciated by anyone involved in the management of a business enterprise, from managers of SMMEs to CEOs of large corporations.
978 1 48512 541 9 978 1 48512 594 5 2e 2017
232 PAGES
ZAR R340.00 ZAR R340.00
CONTENTS
• An introduction to financial management for marketing managers
• Basic accounting and financial statements
• Analysing the annual financial statements
• The capital requirements of any
KEY FEATURES
enterprise or organisation
• Financing the capital requirements of
an enterprise
• The financial break-even analysis • Budgets
• Managing credit
• Managing stock/inventory
• It is all about the data
• An overview of the basic concepts of finance and what financial management means
• A logical introduction to the use of the accounting double entry principle
• Explanations of accounting formulas and statements demonstrated using
practical examples
• Exercises that clarify how everything fits together
• An investigation into the capital requirements of an enterprise and various
ways of financing these requirements
• Diagramsandgraphsthatillustratetheconceptoffinancialbreak-evenanalysis
• Explanations of different types of business budgets
• How to manage credit and stock/inventory
• Adetaileddiscussionontheincreasinglyimportantsubjectofbusinessstatistics
• Important concepts and definitions are highlighted
• Many practical examples and self-evaluation exercises.
ABOUT AUTHORS
Willie Conradie is Emeritus Professor of Business Management at the University of Johannesburg and is the founder, owner and CEO of two companies.
Welma Fourie is currently Financial Manager at Fundi Capital (Pty) Ltd. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at Technikon SA in the Accounting Department.
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