Key Management Ratios ─ The 100+ Ratios Every Manager Needs to Know

Financial measures are critical for business success, and understanding them is vital for anyone who wants to progress as a manager. Business ratios may scare some people. But her's the good news: there is a relatively small number of essential management ratios with which you can measure any aspect of business performance you need to. If you can master these, you will have a firm grip of business finance and need never be put off by the numbers again.

Key Management Ratios cuts straight to the measures that matter. It shows you what they are and explains how they can show you exactly what's going on in your company, from earnings per share and cash flow to return on investment and sales. The clarity of explanation and unique visual presentation will help you to quickly understand everything you need to know about business ratios.

Ciaran Walsh is Senior Specialist Finance at the Irish Management Institute, Dublin.
He is trained both as an economist and an accountant and had 15 years industry experience before joining the academic world. His work with senior managers over many years has enabled him to develop his own unique approach to training corporate finance. As a consequence, he has lectured in most European countries, and the Middle East. His main research interest is to identify and computerize the links that tie corporate growth and capital structure into stock market valuation.