Book Title: Financial Management for Small Businesses, 2nd OER Edition

Subtitle: Financial Statements & Present Value Models

Authors: Lindon Robison; Steven Hanson; and J. Roy Black

Book Description: This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses.

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Book Description

This book is for those whose financial management focus is on small businesses. For you, we adapt the traditional financial management themes emphasized in corporate financial management courses to meet the needs of small businesses.

Many financial managers of small businesses come from farms or agribusinesses. Others are interested in working for or starting businesses in the food or retail sectors. In most cases, these businesses aren’t organized as C-corporations impacting things like taxes, depreciation, and legal requirements around compiling and reporting financial data. They are rarely publicly traded which creates unique constraints to raising debt and equity capital and calculating required risk-adjusted returns.

These financial managers are interested in solving specific problems they face in family or small businesses. They want to know how to apply the tools they are learning—coordinated financial statement analysis, present value analysis, management of cash flow, measuring their opportunity costs, etc.—to the problems they face at home. As we started to work on the actual problems faced by these managers, it quickly became clear that corporate finance tools don’t exactly fit the small businesses they come from. Further, in attempting to tackle the problems they bring, we learned that finding and/or constructing the data needed for financial management is another skill set often overlooked and in need of development. In the end, after investing a lot of time, we found that—without adaptation—corporate finance theory as traditionally taught doesn’t meet the knowledge needs and application skills of financial managers of small businesses. We wrote this book to be a catalyst that enables students and managers of small businesses to learn the tools and skill sets that will help them make sound financial management decisions.

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This book is a cloned version of Financial Management for Small Businesses, 2nd OER Edition by Lindon Robison, Steven Hanson, and J. Roy Black, published using Pressbooks by Michigan State University Libraries under a CC BY-NC (Attribution NonCommercial) license. It may differ from the original.

Authors

Lindon Robison; Steven Hanson; and J. Roy Black

License

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Financial Management for Small Businesses, 2nd OER Edition Copyright © 2021 by Lindon J. Robison is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Subject

Economics, Finance, Business and Management

Metadata

Title
Financial Management for Small Businesses, 2nd OER Edition
Authors
Lindon Robison; Steven Hanson; and J. Roy Black
Contributor
Julie Taylor
License

Icon for the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

Financial Management for Small Businesses, 2nd OER Edition Copyright © 2021 by Lindon J. Robison is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

Primary Subject
Economics, Finance, Business and Management
Additional Subject(s)
Business and Management, Agricultural and rural economics, Agriculture, agribusiness and food production industries
Institution
Michigan State University
Publisher
Michigan State University Libraries
Publication Date
January 28, 2021
Ebook ISBN
978-1-62610-114-2