Overview
- Puts the business - as distinct from the scientific - issues in context for IS and computing students, and IT professionals in particular.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, the book not only takes the reader step by step in plain language, and with many practical examples, through the fundamentals of business and finance, but also through some more advanced topics - leasing, cost/benefit analysis and project evaluation methods - not normally found in an introductory book, but of particular interest to IT people.
Areas covered in this book include:
- Fundamentals of business and finance;
- Balance sheets, profit and loss accounts, cash flow statements;
- Different kinds of business and their financial characteristics;
- Financing and leasing;
- Cost/benefit analysis;
- Project evaluation methods, including net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR) and return on investment (ROI);
- Budget, costing and pricing - an introduction
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business and Finance for IT People
Authors: Michael Blackstaff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0689-0
Publisher: Springer London
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2001
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-85233-264-8Published: 13 April 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-0689-0Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 214
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Business Mathematics, Theory of Computation, Public Economics, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Finance, general, IT in Business