Found Money: Simple Strategies For Uncovering The Hidden Profit And Cash Flow In Your Business by Steve Wilkinghoff
Preliminary Book Review
I get offered many books to review, both by well established and up and coming authors.
I had to ask for a review copy of "Found Money" (or at least drop an extremely heavy hint) because I was intrigued at the marriage of finance and marketing.
You see Steve and I occupy the same positioning.
Steve is a Chartered Accountant in Canada, I'm a Chartered Accountant in the UK.
Steve is a Certified Guerrilla Marketing Coach and so am I.
Steve has big name author friends (Michael Gerber wrote the foreword of Found Money, Michael Port and Jay Conrad Levinson are among the big names giving praise for the book on the back cover) and I don't.
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Finance On A Beermat by Mike Southon, Chris West, Stephen King and Jeff Macklin
Book Review - 4 Stars
The Beermat series of books are a simple and clear explanation of how to build and grow a successful entrepreneurial business.
Finance On A Beermat continues with the traditional and regular authors Mike Southon and Chris West receive help from Stephen King and Jeff Macklin, two of the main people behind FDUK, the franchise for part time finance directors which has been taken over by The FD Centre.
It looks at the idea of finance cornerstones and provides an explanation of finance and accounting.
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The Bottom Line by Alan Warner
Book Review - 4.5 Stars
"The Bottom Line: Practical Financial Knowledge For Managers" by Alan Warner is a remarkable book in that it dresses up finance for non-financial manager training into a romantic novel.
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Finance For The Perplexed Executive by Ray Proctor
Book Review Rating - 4 Stars
When I was eighteen I enrolled at University to take an Economics and Accounting degree because I recognised that "finance is the language of business".
If you don't understand finance, then no matter how much of a wheeler and dealer you are, no matter how strong your trader's instinct, you are likely to hit a finance problem.
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"The Secrets Of Getting Your Bank Manager To Say Yes" by Rob Warlow
Book Review 4.5 Stars
Every day comes more bad news from the banking industry and that must affect small businesses who need to apply for a small business loan or who need to renew an existing loan or overdraft.
Even worse, the credit crisis looks as if it will lead the major world economies into recession and that means that companies will be under more pressure financially.
In this environment, it is essential to know how to apply for a small business loan.
What better way than to get the inside tips from a bank manager who is now high up in an overseas bank.
"The Secrets Of Getting Your Bank Manager To Say Yes" by Rob Warlow - 4.5 Stars
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