Finance is key to every business organisation as well as outside. This book makes sense of the finance world from a non-finance perspective. It introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of business finance to those who do not have financial background or training. Lucid, accessible, yet comprehensive, the book delineates the financial workings of businesses and offers an overview of corporate finance in the global context. The volume: Contains effective tools for financial communication, monitoring, analysis and resource allocation; Provides important learning aids such as figures, tables, illustrations and case studies; Highlights fundamental concepts and applications of finance; Surveys global corporate practices, recent trends and current data. This updated second edition contains new sections on Tax Planning, including Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax in India. A guide to building financial acumen, this book will be a useful resource for executive and management development programmes (EDPs & MDPs) oriented towards business managers, including MBA programmes. It will benefit business executives, corporate heads, entrepreneurs, government officials, teachers, researchers, and students of management and business, as well as those who deal with finance or financial matters in their daily lives.

Finance is key to every business organisation as well as outside. This book makes sense of the finance world from a non-finance perspective. It introduces, explains and demystifies essential ideas of business finance to those who do not have financial background or training. Lucid, accessible, yet comprehensive, the book delineates the financial workings of businesses and offers an overview of corporate finance in the global context. The volume: Contains effective tools for financial communication, monitoring, analysis and resource allocation; Provides important learning aids such as figures, tables, illustrations and case studies; Highlights fundamental concepts and applications of finance; Surveys global corporate practices, recent trends and current data. This updated second edition contains new sections on Tax Planning, including Income Tax and Goods and Services Tax in India. A guide to building financial acumen, this book will be a useful resource for executive and management development programmes (EDPs & MDPs) oriented towards business managers, including MBA programmes. It will benefit business executives, corporate heads, entrepreneurs, government officials, teachers, researchers, and students of management and business, as well as those who deal with finance or financial matters in their daily lives.

Financial analysis is integral to business sustainability in determining an organisation's financial viability and revealing its strengths and weaknesses, a key requirement in today's competitive business environment. In a first of its kind, Financial Statements Analysis: Cases from Corporate India: evaluates the financial performance and efficiency of various corporate enterprises in India; presents actual case studies from eight core sectors (in manufacturing and services) - construction, cement, steel, automobile, power, telecom, banking, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); examines the financial statements on parameters such as financial ratios (profitability, solvency, and liquidity), while appraising their operating efficiency, market potential and valuation; and investigates their implications for larger decision-making and policy recommendations. It will be an important resource for scholars, teachers and students of business and management, commerce, finance, and accounting. It will also appeal to corporate trainers, senior executives and consultants in related fields.

Financial analysis is integral to business sustainability in determining an organisation's financial viability and revealing its strengths and weaknesses, a key requirement in today's competitive business environment. In a first of its kind, Financial Statements Analysis: Cases from Corporate India: evaluates the financial performance and efficiency of various corporate enterprises in India; presents actual case studies from eight core sectors (in manufacturing and services) - construction, cement, steel, automobile, power, telecom, banking, and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO); examines the financial statements on parameters such as financial ratios (profitability, solvency, and liquidity), while appraising their operating efficiency, market potential and valuation; and investigates their implications for larger decision-making and policy recommendations. It will be an important resource for scholars, teachers and students of business and management, commerce, finance, and accounting. It will also appeal to corporate trainers, senior executives and consultants in related fields.

During the last few years, India, with its strong financial system, has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In view of the inevitable importance of financial system globally and in India, the present book is an attempt to provide an up-to-date overview of the Indian financial system and an elaborative discussion on its three wings: financial markets, institutions and services. Supported by various teaching aids including cases, projects and questions, this is a complete book on the subject which covers conventional as well as contemporary topics, besides cultivating a clear understanding of the basic concepts and practices of the constituents of financial system. Primarily designed for postgraduate and undergraduate students of management and allied disciplines of commerce and economics, it is equally useful to the business managers and corporate leaders who would like to be well versed with the basic concepts and mechanism of financial system for achieving professional and personal growth. KEY FEATURES: Covers, in-depth, three constituents of the Financial System in India-financial markets, financial institutions and financial services. Highlights emerging issues like barter exchange, governance rating and more. Current concepts, corporate practices, recent trends, and current data on the subject. Provides illustrations, tables, figures for a vivid visual impact and related concepts to real-life situations. Comprises graded pedagogy-MCQs, True/false, Fill in the blanks, Short answer questions, Critical thinking questions and discussion problems at the end of each chapter. Provides solutions to all MCQs in the respective chapters. Instructor's manual and Learning Material for students are available at www.phindia.com/Books/LearningCentre.

Efficient financial management is the essence of business. This book analyses and evaluates core financial management practices of corporate enterprises in India across diverse sectors including realty, FMCG, pharmaceutical, automobile, IT, chemical and BPO sectors. It emphasizes the importance of the integrated process of capital investments, financing policy, working capital management and dividend distribution for shareholders for a developing economy as India. It further highlights the need for financial viability both in totality and segmental performance. The volume also offers a comparative study of the practices of the companies in different sectors to allow a better appreciation of the issues and challenges regarding management of finances. Rich in case studies, this book will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers and students of financial management, business economics as also corporate practitioners.

Efficient financial management is the essence of business. This book analyses and evaluates core financial management practices of corporate enterprises in India across diverse sectors including realty, FMCG, pharmaceutical, automobile, IT, chemical and BPO sectors. It emphasizes the importance of the integrated process of capital investments, financing policy, working capital management and dividend distribution for shareholders for a developing economy as India. It further highlights the need for financial viability both in totality and segmental performance. The volume also offers a comparative study of the practices of the companies in different sectors to allow a better appreciation of the issues and challenges regarding management of finances. Rich in case studies, this book will be an indispensable resource for scholars, teachers and students of financial management, business economics as also corporate practitioners.

Financial ratios are an important technique of the financial analysis of a business organization. Effective financial management is the key to running a financially successful business. Ratio analysis is critical for helping you understand financial statements, for identifying trends over time, and for measuring the overall financial health of your business. Lenders and potential investors often rely on ratio analysis for making lending and investing decisions. This book aims to not only develop an understanding of the concepts of financial ratios but also to provide the students a practical insight into the application of financial ratios for decision making and control. It analyzes the financial statements of corporate enterprises in India in diverse sectors with the help of financial ratios in order to facilitate the learning process.

Financial management is one of the most important areas of any organization. Capital budgeting is the foundation stone of financial management process and therefore needs to be sound not only in totality but also in segmental performance as far as possible. It is against this backdrop that the present book has been penned down to discuss the concept and process of capital budgeting in a business organization. It discusses the capital budgeting techniques for investment appraisal and their utility in practice. It also evaluates the capital budgeting practices of the corporate enterprises in India in diverse sectors on case basis in order to enable the readers to better appreciate the various issues and challenges regarding capital investment decisions. The objective of the book is, to develop not only an understanding of the concepts of capital budgeting but also to help students to use it as an effective tool for communication, monitoring, analysis and resource allocation. It is hoped that it would provide a complete knowledge platform on capital budgeting and provide a direction to the academic and business fraternity to effectively cope with emerging financial issues and challenges enveloped with the topic.

In 1992, the Reserve Bank of India launched banking sector reforms in India to create a more profitable, efficient, and sound banking system.The reforms include the competition enhancing reforms, reforms enhancing role of market forces, prudential reforms, supervisory reforms, institutional and legal reforms, reforms related to the customer service in banks, technological reforms, and the payment and settlement systems reforms.In the context of these banking sector reforms, the present book attempts to discuss the banking sector reforms in India and to analyze and compare the financial performance of commercial banks in India on various aspects such as profitability, liquidity, capital adequacy, assets quality, and off-balance sheet strength in post reforms era. Moreover, it also attempts to extract the financial ratios which significantly predict the financial performance of commercial banks.The book should be especially useful to banking officials, researchers in the area of banking and finance, stakeholders of commercial banks, or anyone else who is interested in understanding the dynamics of financial performance analysis.