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The Vest Pocket CFO [Paperback]

Jae K. Shim (Author), Joel G. Siegel (Author)
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January 14, 2008 0470168129 978-0470168127 3
The thorough reference that goes wherever you go

The Vest Pocket CFO is the perfect up-to-date reference tool for today's busy CFO, controller, treasurer, and other finance professionals. Written in an easy Q&A format and packed with checklists, samples, and worked-out solutions for a wide variety of accounting and finance problems, readers can take this handy reference wherever they go-on a business trip, visiting a client, conducting a conference call, or attending a meeting.


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The newly updated fast-reference problem solver

The Vest Pocket CFO—the convenient, comprehensive reference that professionals have relied on for nearly fifteen years—is now updated in a new Third Edition to give today's busy financial managers and executives the helpful information they need in a quick-reference format.

Whether in public practice or private industry, professionals will always have this reliable reference tool at their fingertips because it easily goes anywhere—to a client's office, on a business trip, or to an important lunch meeting.

Packed with practical techniques and rules of thumb for analyzing, evaluating, and solving day-to-day accounting issues, The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition helps you quickly pinpoint what to look for, what to watch out for, what to do, and how to do it. In an easy-to-use Q&A format, the new edition includes:

  • New chapters on How to Value Business and Securities and Business Strategies and Shareholder Value Analysis

  • Useful topics such as the new status of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and corporate governance

  • Expanded coverage of cost management and analysis including life-cycle costing, act-based management (ABM), target costing and pricing, balanced scorecard, total quality management (TQM), and quality costs

  • Updated coverage of financial modeling software and expansion on Enterprise Risk Management

The Vest Pocket CFO, Third Edition is a powerful companion for the complex, ever-changing world of accounting and finance.

About the Author

Jae K. Shim, PhD, has authored or coauthored more than fifty professional and college accounting books. He is CEO of Delta Consulting Co., a financial consulting and training firm and has been a consultant to commercial and nonprofit organizations for over thirty years.

Joel G. Siegel, PhD, CPA, is the author of over fifty books and has written hundreds of articles for accounting and financial journals. Dr. Siegel has acted as a consultant in accounting issues to many organizations, including IT&T, Citicorp, and Person-Wolinsky CPA Review.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 864 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 3 edition (January 14, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0470168129
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470168127
  • Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 4.1 x 1.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #797,671 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Not Sure Of The Audience, March 30, 2009
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This review is from: The Vest Pocket CFO (Paperback)
If you ever find yourself in the precarious position of leaping from checkout clerk to CFO, perhaps this book could be of some value. The book's treatment of the topics is so superficial and cursory that anyone who would even remotely be considered for a CFO position would already know 90% of all the information, and in much more depth. As such, I am very confused about the audience at which this book is aimed. I am not sure it's even useful for a freshly minted MBA who is trying to switch his career into finance. There's just not enough substance for that - and at 800+ pages, that's a feat. In addition, it could hardly fit into the vest pocket of any non-titan.

Apart from that, I also think the book is a slight misnomer. It's more like the Vest Pocket CAO (Chief Accounting Officer) since most of the topic is reference to accounting, important for sure, but only one aspect of the job.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good source for my needs, May 6, 2008
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I purchased this product for keeping next to me for quick, handy reviews. it is very helpful.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Service!, September 2, 2009
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Very good definition of describing the book. I was a little skeptic considering I bought a used book. However, the book looks immaculate. It barely looks like it was used. The shipping was very QUICK. I am very satisfied.
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