Finance for Non-Finance People

Sandeep Goel is Associate Professor of Accounting and Finance at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon. India. He holds double doctorates, one in Finance and another in Accounting from the Faculty of Management Studies, University of Delhi. He completed his bachelor and master’s degree in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce and Delhi School of Economics¸ University of Delhi, respectively. He has over two decades of industry and academic experience across various organizations and institutions, including the Shri Ram Group, University of Delhi and MDI. He is a management trainer and consultant to top business organizations and has conducted over 200 programmes dealing with financial skills and consultancy assignments on financial management, accounting application and financial leadership. His areas of teaching and research interests are financial reporting and analysis¸ management accounting and control¸ corporate finance¸ corporate governance and earnings management. He has authored eight books including Financial Management Practices in India (2016) and Financial Statements Analysis: Cases from Corporate India (2014) and over 50 articles in journals apart from being the financial columnist for Purchase.

INTRODUCTION
1: Business Organisations


2: Fundamentals of Accounting


3: Accounting Principles






FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ANALYSIS



4: Financial Statements


5: Financial Analysis






COST ACCOUNTING AND MANAGEMENT



6: Cost Concepts and Classification


7: Budgeting


8: Marginal Costing and Managerial Decision-making






FINANCIAL SYSTEM



9: Financial Markets


10: Mutual Funds


11: Forex Market






FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT



12: Nature of Financial Management


13: Capital Budgeting: Concept and Application


14: Time Value of Money


15: Estimation of Cash Flows


16: Capital Budgeting Appraisal Methods


17: Cost of Capital


18: Capital Structure Planning


19: Working Capital Management


20: Dividend Policy






VALUE-BASED MANAGEMENT



21: Economic Value added


22: Human Resource Valuation






STRATEGIC FINANCE





23: Mergers and Acquisitions


24: Corporate Governance


Appendix I: Future/Compound Value Factor of a Lump Sum (FVIF/CVIF) of Re 1, FVIF (i,n).





Appendix II: Future/Compound Value Factor of an Annuity (FVIFA/CVIFA) of Re 1, FVIFA (i,n).





Appendix III: Present Value Factor of a Lump Sum (PVIF) of Re 1, PVIF (i,n)





Appendix IV: Present Value Factor of an Annuity (PVIFA) of Re 1, PVIFA (I,n)





Appendix V: List of Corporates and Business Organisations