Cash Flow for Dummies - Paperback

by Tage C. Tracy (Author), John A. Tracy (Author)

The fast and easy way to grasp cash flow management

Cash Flow For Dummies offers small business owners, accountants, prospective entrepreneurs, and others responsible for cash management an informational manual to cash flow basics and proven success strategies. Cash Flow For Dummies is an essential guide to effective strategies that will make your business more appealing on the market. Loaded with valuable tips and techniques, it teaches individuals and companies the ins and outs of maximizing cash flow, the fundamentals of cash management, and how it affects the quality of a company's earnings.

Cash flow is the movement of cash into or out of a business, project, or financial product. It is usually measured during a specified, finite period of time, and can be used to measure rates of return, actual liquidity, real profits, and to evaluate the quality of investments. Cash Flow For Dummies gives you an understanding of the basic principles of cash management and its core principles to facilitate small business success.

• Covers how to read cash flow statements
• Illustrates how cash balances are analyzed and monitored--including internal controls over cash receipts and disbursements, plus bank account reconciliation and activity analysis
• Tips on how to avoid the pitfalls of granting credit--evaluating customer credit, sources of credit information, and overall credit policy
• Advice on how to prevent fraud and waste
• Covers cash-generating tactics when doing business with dot-coms, other start-ups, and bankrupt customers

Cash Flow For Dummies is an easy-to-understand guide that covers all of these essentials for success and more.

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Learn to:

• Grasp the basic principles of cash flow management
• Secure business with positive and consistent cash flow
• Bring financial security to your company
• Distinguish profit and cash flow from profit

Grasp cash flow management and make your business more appealing on the market

Are you a small business owner, accountant, or entrepreneur responsible for cash management? This hands-on, friendly guide is your plain-English manual to cash flow basics.You'll get valuable tips, techniques, and information on the fundamentals of cash management to maximize cash flow and understand how it affects the quality of your company's earnings.

• Cash flow 101 - get a clear overview of cash flow basics and how it all fits into the bigger picture of running a business
• Make a statement - find out how to read balance sheets and income statements from a cash flow perspective
• Get down to the nitty gritty - understand how to judge a company's liquidity, secure external capital to start and maintain a company, and avoid cash shortfalls
• Management frame of mind - discover how business owners and managers need to manage cash flow to prevent leakages, theft, and fraud; how to manage disbursement cycles to improve cash flow; and how to manage the selling cycle to improve cash flows

Open the book and find:

• A refresher on fundamental accounting topics
• How to identify basic types of cash activities
• The scoop on the big three financial statements
• Ways to analyze cash flow
• Liquidity vs. available cash
• Everything you need to know about planning and projections
• Real-world examples that help drive home critical concepts
• Keys to managing cash flows in a small business

Author Biography

Tage C. Tracy is principal owner of TMK & Associates, an accounting, financial, and strategic business planning consulting firm.

John A. Tracy is Professor of Accounting at the University of Colorado in Boulder and the author of Accounting For Dummies.