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Praise for Private Capital Markets

Valuation, Capitalization, and Transfer of Private Business Interests

"In the years since publication of the first edition of Private Capital Markets, the concepts and ideas that it presents have been widely accepted by progressive members of the business valuation community. Now with the Second Edition, author Rob Slee has included empirical data on capital markets for midsized businesses. This book remains a must for everyone involved in appraising, buying, selling, or financing privately owned businesses."—Raymond C. Miles, founder, The Institute of Business Appraisers

"The Graziadio School of Business has used the Private Capital Markets book for several years with great success. This course, along with the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Survey project, has helped our students better prepare for careers in middle market companies."—Linda Livingstone, Dean of the Graziadio School of Business and Management,Pepperdine University

"Our international association of independent M&A professionals recommends this text as the most comprehensive foundation for understanding the private capital marketplace. This book is essential reading for middle market M&A advisors, investors, and other decision-makers in the private capital markets." —Mike Nall, founder, Alliance of M&A Advisors

A practical road map for making sound investment and financing decisions based on real experiences and market needs

Now fully revised and in a second edition, Private Capital Markets provides lawyers, accountants, bankers, estate planners, intermediaries, and other professionals with a workable framework for making sound investment and financing decisions based on their own needs and experiences.

This landmark resource covers:

• Private business valuation

• Middle market capital sources

• The business ownership transfer spectrum

• And much more

Private Capital Markets, Second Edition surveys the private capital markets and presents the proven guidance you need to navigate through these uncharted waters.

With limited access to credit and short term funding, it is increasingly important that companies focus on working capital management to free up funds and optimize liqidity. Written in the easy-to-follow Essentials Series style, Essentials of Working Capital Management covers the main components of working capital.

• Covers the latest trends around working capital
• Discusses a range of working capital topics, including cash management, banking relations, accounts receivable, inventory, accounts payable, and foreign exchange
• Analyzes the efficient utilization of current assets and liabilities of a business through each phase of the operating cycle
• Examines the planning, monitoring, and management of the company's collections, disbursements and concentration banking
• Explores the gathering and management of information and forecast data to effectively use funds and identify risk

Focused on how businesses can continue to be successful in these difficult times, specifically in relation to the limited credit available to businesses, this book puts practical guidance at your fingertips so you can put them to work right away. A comprehensive case introduces each major section of the book, and suggested solutions are included in a book appendix.

Featuring the latest information on accounting methods and standards, this guide shows you how to avoid accounting fraud, minimize confusion, maximize profits, and make sense of accounting basics. You'll quickly understand how to manage inventory, report income and expenses for public or private companies, evaluate profit margins, analyze business strengths and weaknesses, and manage budgets for a better bottom line.

With 25 percent new content including updated information on small and large business reporting standards, international accounting standards, and preventing financial reporting fraud, Accounting For Dummies continues to be an excellent resource for those studying accounting.

• The separate accounting and financial reporting standards for private/small businesses versus public/large businesses (Little GAAP vs. Big GAAP)
• The internationalization of accounting standards
• The rise in restatements of previously issued financial reports by public corporations, and how revisions of previously reported earnings impact investors
• The increasing focus on preventing financial reporting fraud and the expanded role and responsibility of the CPA auditor
• Accounting problems with stock options
• The "unaccounted for" cost of employee pensions and retirement health care costs, in both the private and public sectors
• Expanded coverage of small business accounting
• Updated resources and websites

The information in Accounting For Dummies is valuable for anyone studying or working in the fields of accounting or finance.

The lifeblood of any business enterprise is its people. Yet it wasn't until the publication of the groundbreaking book "The ROI of Human Capital" that there was a reliable way to quantify the contributions of people to corporate profit. Completely updated with new metrics, the book shows executives and HR professionals how to gauge human costs and productivity at three critical levels:

organizational (contributions to corporate goals) - functional (impact on process improvement) - human resources management (value added by five basic HR department activities)

The second edition contains new material on topics including corporate outsourcing, developments in behavioral science, and advances in trending and forecasting that have dramatically changed the way organizations measure the bottom line effect of employee performance. Utterly up-to-date, this is the go-to resource for organizations performing the essential task of measuring the value of their people.