‘Aspiring managers who have trouble
with crunching numbers may have found a saviour in Richard
Stutely.’

The Guardian

‘… a powerful tool for anyone
involved with practical financial management issues. It is a superb
balance between practical tips and hints and sufficient level of
detail to enable you to challenge and make progress in improving
the financial and operational performance of your organisation. It
consciously avoids the sterile academic debates and focuses clearly
on value added ideas and initiatives. The 10 questions sections are
incredibly powerful.’

Simon Rogers,Senior
Consultant in Big 4 Global Professional Services Firm

Don’t let a fear of finance hold
you back. Play the numbers game … and win.

If you’re a manager or entrepreneur
and you’re not proficient in the basics of business finance,
you simply can't do your job well. If you need to get to grips with
essentials like P&L accounts, budgets and forecasting,
this is the only book you'll ever need. The Definitive
Guide to Business Finance is focused on getting you up to speed
- fast. Richard Stutely achieves what you might think is
impossible, making business finance easy with an amusing, wry and
common sense style that will make you wonder what you ever worried
about. 

This book is a survival toolkit on the
financial essentials. It assumes no specialised prior knowledge of
finance and takes a guided step-by-step approach to all the
techniques and concepts you need to understand, explaining the
hows, whats and whys along the way. To make things even easier, it
shows you how to use basic Excel spreadsheets to do all the
calculations for you. Throughout the book, Richard Stutely shoes
you how to crack the jargon and unveils shortcuts, tips and tricks
that will make you look like a financial wizard.

If you're not yet a whiz with
the numbers, you can definitely use this book to your
advantage. If you're already a whiz, you will still find
something new to improve your skills. Make the numbers add up
for you.