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Easy-to-use, common sense methods to better understand a company. This is the best, no-nonsense numbers book of the past two years.--(Journal of Business Strategy). One of the best introductions to managerial finance I've come across. says George Gendron, Editor-in-Chief, INC.
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《书目》(Booklist)书评
This managerial reference book contains many different types of business ratios used to measure progress. The work is a personal anthology of well-known, little-known, and entirely new ratios compiled by Gates, who developed and used many of these ratios during his business career. Ratios are organized into six categories based on managerial need--sales, profit, debt/capital, efficiency, marketing, and investment. Each ratio is described five ways, starting with a succinct, written definition; an explanation of what the ratio measures; why it is important; who looks at it; and the meaning of the numbers. Managers of small and medium-size businesses, financial officers, lenders, management consultants, business investors, and students will find the ratios helpful in assessing a firm's financial health and relative value. The book is organized in two parts. Chapters 1-7 introduce ratio analysis and then describe 101 specific measures as well as formulas for their computation. Chapters 8-11 are how-to sections concerned with practical application of the ratios; they explain finding the input numbers, calculating the ratios, and presenting the ratios in numerical and graphic formats. The reader is also introduced to the ways computers are used to process and report ratio information. Appendixes provide a list of ratios, a list of input statistics, a usage table, suggestions for acronymic naming of variables, stock market ratios, and miscellaneous tips for readers. In addition, a glossary defines many technical terms appearing in the text, and more than 40 graphs and tables of information are included. Many chapters also include a list of sources for the information presented. While both Industry Norms and Key Business Ratios (Dun & Bradstreet, annual) and the Almanac of Business and Industrial Financial Ratios (20th ed., Prentice Hall, 1991) contain many financial ratios, no other title compiles these 101 ratios or cuts across the disciplines of accounting, economics, mathematics, and computer science. All business collections will want to add this small, inexpensive, but valuable, new resource. (Reviewed Apr. 15, 1993)
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Gates's 101 Business Ratios is a quick source for the busy practitioner or student who wishes to understand and use the common business ratios. Measurements of sales, profit, debt, capital, efficiency, marketing, and investment, as well as back orders, floor space, number of employees, customers, transactions, inflation rates, interest rates, etc., are all included in this 261-page book. In addition to the definition of terms, Gates, a 40-year businessman himself, draws on his experiences and his insight into the field to make the meaning of the numbers come alive. The author, in language most business-oriented individuals can appreciate, explains for each ratio what it measures, why it is important, how to calculate it (using three different approaches and formulations), and when it is appropriate to use it. Overall, a good reference source. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; pre-professional; professional. W. Pan; University of New Haven