Principles of Management in Export: The Institute of Export / Edition 1

by James Conlan

Overview

This text examines the development of flexible but rigorous management of key areas such as financial reporting, cash flow, risk, budgeting, pricing, and costing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631191940
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	09/20/1994
Series:	Institute of Export
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.87(w) x 9.84(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

James Conlan has spent many years in the fields of marketing, advertising, printing and publishing and has been closely involved in new product development as well as the establishment of overseas subsidiaries. He is now a full-time management educator with a specialist interest in the quantifiable and financial aspects of business. He is a Member of the Institute of Export and of the British Institute of Management.

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables.

Foreword.

Series Editor's Introduction.

About The Institute of Export Examinations.

Introduction.

Part I: The Business and Management Background: .

1. What An Export Business is All About.

2. Companies and Businesses.

3. How We Measure Our Progress.

4. Organizing the Information Laws.

Part II: The Basic Tools for Profitable Management:.

5. Management, the Business and the Finance.

6. The Trading and Profit and Loss Account.

7. How We Calculate the Profit.

8. Thinking About Costs.

9. Cash, and How It Flows In and Out.

10. The 'Why' and 'How' of Cash Flow Forecasting.

11. Cash, Stocks and Working Capital.

12. Prices and Costs (And Some Other Things As Well).

Part III: Putting it Together:.

13. Coping With the Uncertainties.

14. The Planning Process: Performance and Budgeting.

15. Information Technology and Exporting.

16. A Reminder of How it is All to be Fitted Together.

Glossary.

Appendices.

Index.