This comprehensive handbook includes proven techniques, methods and tools to allow accurate analysis of any operation, both as a whole and by segment. It will enable the reader to identify and address problem areas, evaluate proposals for profit potential, improve the accuracy of short- and long-term forecasting, and better manage working capital, cash and accounts. The Handbook of Financial Analysis, Forecasting and Modeling provides dozens of worked out models and techniques that simplify the most difficult business decisions, and also includes a free CD-Rom with spreadsheets and other finance tools. It is a must-have for any manager needing to make informed decisions on the direction of a company.

Jae Shim, author of more than 40 books, is an accounting consultant and professor of accounting at California State University. Joel Siegel is a consultant and author of more than 60 books, as well as being a professor of accounting at Queens College of the City University, New York.