The Complete CFO Handbook: From Accounting to Accountability [Hardcover]

Frank J. Fabozzi CFA (Author), Pamela Peterson Drake CFA (Author), Ralph S. Polimeni (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 2, 2007 | ISBN-10: 0470099267 | ISBN-13: 978-0470099261 | Edition: 4

This must-have reference covers all of the major areas of cost accounting and analysis including product costing, relevant costs, cost-volume analysis, performance evaluation, transfer pricing, and capital budgeting.

• Includes methods of reorganizing, classifying, allocating, aggregating, and reporting actual costs and comparing them with standard costs.
• Equips experienced cost accountants with a reference tool and students with a thorough textbook.
• Provides numerous examples, succinct language, chapter review, glossary, and appendices.
• Includes an abundance of exercises, many of which are based on exam questions from the CPA and CMA exams.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Praise for The Complete CFO Handbook
From Accounting to Accountability

"The office of the CFO in corporations today must blend strategy, investor relations, corporate finance, control, budgeting, risk management, and a host of other key areas of expertise and knowledge. Business education, however, tends to be compartmentalized along functional lines and courses and texts specialize in subsets of these subject areas. Fabozzi, Drake, and Polimeni bridge that yawning gap by providing a comprehensive set of materials that can serve as a nice platform to develop managers tasked with the sourcing and managing of funds within organizations. The Complete CFO Handbook is well written and makes extensive use of examples to illustrate key concepts."
—Jacob Thomas
Williams Brothers Professor of Accounting and Finance
Yale School of Management

The role of the CFO in business has expanded significantly in recent years as companies become more accountable to their stakeholders and regulators and as the sophistication of technology, risk management, financial analysis, and financial records processing has increased.

Filled with numerous examples, The Complete CFO Handbook lives up to its name and provides complete coverage of:

• The CFO's role in company communications with company stakeholders

• The tools and processes by which a CFO may manage risk, including taxes, theenterprise risk management process, and strategies for transferring risk

• Performance evaluation and the fundamentals of the capital budgeting process

• Traditional cost accounting topics of product costing and strategic cost management

Every CFO's desktop tool, The Complete CFO Handbook expertly provides financial executives with an extensive review of cost accounting as well as the background and tools for managing a company's financial functions.

About the Author

Frank J. Fabozzi, PhD, CFA, CPA, is Professor in the Practice of Finance in the School of Management at Yale University. He is a Fellow of the International Center for Finance at Yale University and serves on the Advisory Council for the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering at Princeton University. He has authored and edited numerous books in finance.

Pamela Peterson Drake, PhD, CFA, is the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance and Department Head of Finance and Business Law at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia. She is author or coauthor of numerous books and articles.

Ralph S. Polimeni, PhD, CPA, is the Vice Provost for Accreditation and Assessment and holds the Chaykin Endowed Chair in Accounting at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York. He has authored numerous articles and books on accounting.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 864 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (November 2, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470099267
• ISBN-13: 978-0470099261
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #117,178 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)