·        Every manager needs to know this stuff - and this is the only basic finance book they'll need to get on top of the numbers.

• Offers explanations using a readable, common-sense approach that demystifies financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting and decision-making.
• A practical and definitive step-by-step guide to preparing and using the numbers for all forms of management decision making.
• Part of the highly successful and prestigious Definitive Guide Series that is relaunching and will be high profile from December 2006.

·        Easy to navigate format - each chapter tells you which others you need to have read first, and provides a survival toolkit to summarise the main points.

·        A guide to using Excel spreadsheets that concentrates on doing business rather than accounting

·        Highly successful author - wrote the best-selling Definitive Business Plan

·        Renamed title – more emphasis on the business finance and managers – plays down the numbers aspect, and a new introduction.