In today’s business environment, a knowledge of finance and skills in budgeting and financial planning are more important than ever before. Totally updated and revised, this highly anticipated Third Edition provides new information on five such key topics as interpreting financial statements; information technology in finance; planning capital expenditures; information technology and your firm; business valuation, and much more. Top experts in each field explain the basics of cost-volume analysis, forecasts, and budgets, and reveal how to create a winning business plan. Ideal reading for any manager or executive who needs a “refresher course” in finance.

A fully updated guide to equity style management
Pioneered by Nobel laureate William Sharpe, equity style management is derived from a correlation analysis of various equity style categories, such as value, growth, small cap, large cap and foreign stocks. In the Third Edition of The Handbook of Equity Style Management, twenty contributors from industry and academia help readers understand various equity style management issues, including equity style indices, different approaches to equity style measurement, foreign stock investing, tactical style management, behavioral aspects of equity style, and equity style benchmarks for manager selection and performance attribution. This updated edition gives readers the rationale behind equity style management, and shows how new strategies can be used to manage risk and improve returns.
T. Daniel Coggin, PhD (Charlotte, NC), is an investment management consultant who has coauthored three books and numerous articles on investment management. Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA (New Hope, PA), is Editor of The Journal of Portfolio Management and author or editor of over 100 books on finance and investing.

Rich Dad’s Guide to Investing: What the Rich Invest in, That the Poor and the Middle Class Do Not!

By: Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Publisher: Warner Business Books
Language: English
ISBN: 0446677469

The rich are different from the rest of us, if for no other reason than U.S. tax and securities laws allow them to invest in ways that keep us from catching up to them. That’s why 90 percent of all corporate shares of stock are owned by 10 percent of the people. Kiyosaki believes it’s possible for anyone to move up into that 10 percent, but it takes a different view of investing than most people have: it takes a plan to be a successful investor. And a plan is more than simply buying and selling, or collecting “assets” that bring in no cash and are thus more akin to liabilities. The way most people invest, “they might as well be pushing a wheelbarrow in a circle,” he writes. A plan is “mechanical, automatic, and boring,” a formula for success that has worked historically for most of those who’ve used it. Kiyosaki’s “rich dad” (actually, the father of his best friend) tells him the simplest analogy is the game Monopoly: buy four green houses, trade them for one red hotel, and repeat until you become rich.

Rich Dad’s Guide to Financial Freedom

By:Robert T. Kiyosaki, Sharon L. Lechter
Publisher: Warner Business Books
ISBN: 0446677477

Rich Dad’s Cashflow Quadrant will reveal why some people work less, earn more, pay less in taxes, and feel more financially secure than others. It is simply a matter of knowing which quadrant to work from and when.

Have you ever wondered…

- What is the difference between an employee and a business owner?
- Why do some investors make money with little risk while most other investors just break even?
- Why do most employees go from job to job while others quit their jobs and go on to build business empires?
- Why, in the Industrial Age, did most parents want their children to become medical doctors, accountants, or attorneys… and why, in the Information Age, are these professions under financial attack?

By: Michael Masterson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Publication date: 2005
ISBN: 047171027X

The advice and concepts outlined in Automatic Wealth are best suited for those in their 30s-50s who recognize that their current job will never afford them true financial independence. Rather than encourage readers to quit their day jobs today and launch into a new scheme tomorrow, Masterson shows how to turn your skills and experience into significantly more money within seven to fifteen years. For those just getting by, he details how to get the biggest pay raises now and how to move into more lucrative ventures in the near future. For those with some savings, he offers specific advice on building equity and increasing net worth significantly and quickly. Since Masterson made his millions starting and developing small businesses, he encourages people to become entrepreneurs themselves and discusses which kinds of ventures to invest in and which ones to avoid. He also stresses the importance of developing multiple income streams, offering chapters on real estate, stocks and bonds, consulting, direct mail, and other opportunities.