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Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management (Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management, 2nd ed)

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For an experienced financial professional, this text does not add much value. The book touches upon a great many subjects, but does not appear to cover any one in any depth. The book may be most appropriate as an introductory text on the subject on the undergraduate level but not as a practioner's desk reference. As a professional with significant experience in investment banking with a CPA and MBA, I was looking for in-depth guide to the specific mechnanics of the contoller's function.

As the title claims, it's a handbook not a textbook; therefore, it doesn't explain concepts in depth and doesn't support them with examples or case scenarios. It, in fact, like other handbooks just tells or dictates, and the reader must take the principles on faith. Handbooks normally save time of those who just want to cram or learn the principles to forget later on. My recommendation to students is that this book is NOT for you. If you only want this book to pass the course, you would rather buy any "outlines", "crash course", or "dummy series". For all others, it's a good handbook, certainly a good reference as well.

It has a broad coverage in topics and gives you a reasonably good introduction as well as some tips such as pros and cons of getting into certain types of transacrtions, etc., when you want to look up an topic that is not familiar to you. However, naturally due to the neture of any reference book, you would need to look for other textbooks if you want to dig into more. One thing that needs a little improvement is that there are at least a few errors in calculations and/or application of formulas (e.g. calculations related to lease transactions), which may bother you, especialy because you are looking to this handbook when you want to have a good idea on whatever the topic you are looking at since you are not too familiar with the topic....

Thorough coverage of accounting and financial management topics make this a must-have resource for business students! You will find it valuable for reading up on areas that may not be covered well in your course's textbook. The clear, concise style of Corporate Controller's Handbook makes reading the book a pleasure; I recommend it without reservation.

This book is a must for anyone who is serious about financial analysis and money management. It takes an advanced look at financial statement review and budgeting. Our consultants use this book as a daily referrence. If you are a financial professional, or want to become one, this book belongs on your bookshelf.

This book is technically good but not so useful, at least to me. I purchased this book some years ago and it gets a prominent spot on a shelf in my office. But I never use it because it's not handy to me.

I think the best purpose of this book is to define a typical controller's skill set. When you get into the skill set areas, well then you will need books specializing in them. For example, when you want to review management accounting, you're unlikely to use this guide as the coverage is insufficiently detailed.

A comprehensive reference book for any finance manager. Great to have such book for reference purposes any time as needed as it will help you to find your way whether you want to resolve an issue or to get an idea about a new finance subject encountered at work

I expected a "handbook" to show more useful detail. Not bad, but there are better desk books for the money.