Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

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Financial Transparency: Our Ultimate Goal

Financial training is valuable, both to the people who receive it and to the company that sponsors it. But these days, even that may not go far enough.

The reason? People may not have learned a lot about finance in recent years, but they have certainly learned that they can’t take their employer’s financial stability for granted. Too many large companies have gone out of business or have been snapped up by an acquirer at bargain prices (usually with a huge loss of jobs). Too many companies have been shown to be cooking the books, typically with devastating consequences for the people who worked there. People all over the country have learned the lesson: for very practical reasons, they should understand ...