Expert advice for success in a small business. Learn from an expert the most effective way to manage your business finances. From preparing a business plan and raising capital to establishing sound management and financial controls, this jargon free-guide shows you how to run your business successfully. Essential know-how on taxation and legal issues is supplemented by helpful charts and diagrams, at-a-glance tip boxes, case studies, questionnaires, and checklists that gives you a complete understanding of small-business finance. In Estimating Finances, you'll learn about preparing your business plan, and forecasting cash flow. Then move on to Raising the Money, to find out about organizing your business, and choosing a source of finance, followed by Tracking the Money, which covers keeping the books, the profit and loss account, the balance sheet, and accounting rules. Finally, discover the keys to Controlling the Numbers, from watching the big picture, going into detail, and setting out your budget, to improving your performance. Managing Your Finances also provides Useful Information, from legal matters, financial matters, and glossary, to useful contacts, and suggested reading. Managing Your Finances is one of four new titles in an innovative series of practical guides, covering every aspect of business, for everyone starting their own small business.
Educated at Sandhurst and Cranfield, Colin Barrow is the author of more than 30 books in the fields of entrepreneurship, business management and international property development. His books have been published by the BBC, The Economist, John Wiley, The Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, Kogan Page, he has authored or co-authored ten books in the Dummies series and been translated into a score of languages including Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, Georgian, Romanian, Polish and Bahasa Indonesia. Two of his books form the core of Microsoft's Business Plan Writer, a project on which he was a consultant advisor.
Following a career in business where he held senior staff and line positions, including that of managing director of a substantial manufacturing enterprise with multi -plant and multi-country operations he was Head of the Enterprise Group at Cranfield School of Management, a leading International Business School, for ten years. He has been a visiting professor in universities in the US, Europe and the Far East. For five years he was a non-executive director of a high tech venture capital fund, has sat on Government task forces and is now strategic advisor to a number of business owners.
As well as his own books he currently writes freelance, ghost writing and 'Anglicising' books for American authors and lectures extensively on business topics. You can hear Colin's podcast on team building at http://www.morethanbusiness.com/Knowledge-Centre/Podcasts/Business-Networks
