Business Builders Recommended Reading List

Finance
	The One Page Business Plan Jim Horan The Fastest, Easiest Way To Write A Business Plan It doesn't have to take agonizing meetings, pounds of documents, or endless spreadsheets to produce a meaningful business plan. A single page can contain all of the essential elements you need to successfully present your ideas to management, banks, the SBA, venture capitalists, and Boards of Directors. This new addition includes The One Page Entrepreneur's Toolkit CD-ROM with templates, worksheets, sales calculators, budgets, scorecards, and bonus tools. "In his valuable, The One Page Business Plan, Jim Horan not only removes the mystique from business plans, but also leads you by the hand through crafting the best plan possible: clear, focused, understandable and concise. I consider the book to be a significant contribution to business literature." Jay Conrad Levinson, Author Guerilla Marketing series of books
	Paul R. Niven Niven shares his extensive experience in developing Balanced Scorecards for Fortune 1000, public sector, and not-for-profit organizations. He provides insight on and practical solutions for developing performance objectives and measures that faithfully translate strategy. Back to Top
	David Wade, Ronald Recardo Explains how to develop a sound corporate business strategy from the bottom up. Includes case studies showing how successful companies align overall strategy, performance measurement metrics and personnel and technology, with the tools and techniques needed to apply these concepts within any organization. Softcover. DLC: Management--Evaluation. Back to Top S
	Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton Converting Intangible Assets into Tangible Outcomes. More than a decade ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the Balanced Scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the Balanced Scorecard into action. Back to Top
	Erich A. Helfert The unique, central concept of Techniques of Financial Analysis is the business system, an effective and intuitive way of visualizing the key areas of the typical business organization, and the related investment, operating, and financing decisions that drive its performance and value. This cash flow model (see Chapter 1) serves as the basic structure to which all analytical concepts and tools are related, so that the student is always aware of the larger operational and strategic context in which these techniques should be applied to properly understand the process of successful value creation in a business. Such contextual insight is critical in a specialized subject like financial analysis, which is generally taught in a dry, accounting-oriented fashion. Back to Top