The Complete CFO Handbook: From Accounting to Accountability

  • 15h 14m
  • Frank J. Fabozzi, Pamela Peterson Drake, Ralph S. Polimeni
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2008

The role of the CFO in business has expanded significantly in recent years as companies become more accountable to their stakeholders and regulators and as the sophistication of technology, risk management, financial analysis, and financial records processing has increased.

Filled with numerous examples, The Complete CFO Handbook lives up to its name and provides complete coverage of:

  • The CFO's role in company communications with company stakeholders
  • The tools and processes by which a CFO may manage risk, including taxes, the enterprise risk management process, and strategies for transferring risk
  • Performance evaluation and the fundamentals of the capital budgeting process
  • Traditional cost accounting topics of product costing and strategic cost management

Every CFO's desktop tool, The Complete CFO Handbook expertly provides financial executives with an extensive review of cost accounting as well as the background and tools for managing a company's financial functions.

About the Authors

Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CPA, is Professor in the Practice of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He has authored and edited numerous books in finance.

Pamela Peterson Drake, PhD, CFA, is the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Department Head of Finance and Business Law at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. She is author or coauthor of numerous books and articles.

Ralph S. Polimeni, PhD, CPA, is the Vice Provost for Accreditation and Assessment and holds the Chaykin Endowed Chair in Accounting at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. He has authored numerous articles and books on accounting.

In this Book

  • The Changing Role of the CFO: From Accounting to Accountable
  • Capital Structure Decisions
  • Types of Debt Financing
  • Equity Funding
  • Structured Financing: Asset Securitization and Structured Notes
  • Strategy and Financial Planning
  • Basics of Corporate Taxes and Tax Risk Management
  • Corporate Risk Management
  • Financial Ratio Analysis
  • Cash Flow Analysis
  • Decentralized Operations and Responsibility Accounting
  • Responsibility Center Performance Evaluation
  • Transfer Pricing
  • Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis
  • Capital Budgeting Techniques
  • Capital Budgeting and Risk
  • Leasing
  • Managing Short-Term Assets
  • Classifying Costs
  • Costing and Control of Materials, Labor, and Factory Overhead
  • Job Order and Process Costing
  • Joint Product and By-Product Costing
  • Master Budget
  • Standard Costing
  • Direct and Absorption Costing
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