How To Talk Finance

Unsure of the difference between cash and profit?

Don’t know your budget from your forecast?

Whatever your role and whatever the business, if you don’t understand the numbers you can quickly feel overwhelmed, confused and out of control.

No mathematician? No matter. How to Talk Finance is straight-talking, easy to understand, written in plain English and will quickly become your indispensable guide to business finance. It will take you through all the major finance and reporting concepts you need to know so you can make sense of the numbers, discuss them with confidence and apply what you’ve learned to your everyday work.

•    Understand official financial statements and unlock what they mean to you

•    Learn to read statutory accounts and management reports 

•    Clarify the key concepts of budgeting and forecasting and learn to do your own

•    Build an impressive financial vocabulary and begin to talk finance

ENDORSEMENTS

1. “Finance books don’t normally ‘grip’ me but this one is a great tool for quick clarifications of finance terms as well as more detailed illustrations to help de-mystify the world of Finance – definitely a book to have on the desk!”

Rachel Kay, Managing Director, Thales Training & Consultancy

2. "Absolutely essential reading for every candidate, past, present and future on The Apprentice - and a most useful, plain-speaking, down to earth book on finance for anybody planning to enter business and everybody who is already there."

Nick Hewer, One time advisor to Lord Sugar on The Apprentice

3. “An essential read for those who wish to increase their understanding of the fundamentals of finance.”

Lee C. Johnson, Global HR Director, Croda

Listed in 'Five of this Year's Most Notable Business Books' by The Week (October, 2015)