Financial Forecasting and Decision Making.

Intro -- FINANCIAL FORECASTING AND DECISION MAKING -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Chapter 1 FORECASTING PREREQUISITES -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES -- An Overview of the Forecasting Process -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- More on the Forecasting Process -- PURPOSE OF FORECASTING -- FIRST-PASS FORECAST -- SIMULATION -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- ASSUMPTIONS AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS -- PLANNING AND FORECASTING -- Budgets Versus Forecasted Financial Statements -- BUDGETS -- FORECASTED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- Financial Planning Prerequisites -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Corporate Growth -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Value of a Company -- Chapter 2 USING THE BASIC FORECASTING MODEL -- LEARNING OBJECTIVES -- Making Assumptions -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Percent of Sales and Sales Forecasts -- SALES FORECAST AND FORECASTING -- THE SALES FORECAST -- WHO PREPARES THE SALES FORECAST? -- The Basic Forecasting Model -- PERCENT OF SALES METHOD -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Explanation of the Basic Model -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Identification of Spontaneous and Quasi-spontaneous Accounts -- SPONTANEOUS ASSETS -- SPONTANEOUS LIABILITIES -- The Basic Model: An Example -- NEED FOR FUNDS -- INTERNALLY GENERATED SOURCES -- IMPACT OF PROFITS ON EFN -- EFN AND SALES INCREASES -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Using the Basic Model for Planning -- DIVIDENDS -- FINANCING -- SALES GROWTH -- ESTIMATING SALES -- The Basic Model: Sensitivity Analysis -- EXAMPLE -- ANOMALY OF SALES GROWTH -- The Zeta Company Case Study -- The Balance Sheet: Percent of Sales Method -- KNOWLEDGE CHECK -- Forecasting the Balance Sheet: An Example -- Using the Projected Balance Sheet for Decision Making: Capital Structure Decision -- Methods of Financing EFN -- EXTERNAL SOURCES -- INTERNAL SOURCES -- Using the Projected Balance Sheet for Decision Making: Working Capital Decisions -- WORKING CAPITAL AND PROFITS -- SECOND-PASS FORECAST: IMPROVING WORKING CAPITAL.