FOREWORD

Michael Blackstaff has produced a practical, readable and enjoyable guide to the financial factors that IT decision makers should consider when making an investment and how these relate to business operations. For many years this has been a contentious area, particularly in the IT sector, where, on the one hand, technological considerations have sometimes been allowed to override business sense; while, on the other hand, insufficient knowledge of the black arts of financing have sometimes been known to lead to poor IT decisions.

Michael sets out a logical, ordered, way of approaching the subject, which, when used by IT and accounting professionals, will provide a common base of understanding. The book provides a sound basis for the ...

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