Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers Paperback – September 9, 2008

This book does a great job of highlighting the most important parts of navigating financial statements. It is a must read for any small business owner or financial analyst.I wish I bought the physical version instead of kindle so it would be easier to reference the samples in the appendix.

I am not an entrepreneur, but I work for a very small start-up with increasing business responsibilities from marketing to finance, which is out of my area of expertise (life science). This book is really great in helping an individual develop a solid foundation for understanding and applying the financial knowledge within this book. The author's writing style is engaging and the exercises at the end of the book were useful. Overall, pleased with the book!

A budding entrepreneur needs some knowledge of business finance and operations. This text constitutes a short course on Finance an Accounting Principles. "Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs" provides an insightful overview into the meanings of financial numbers while not really delving into the depths of accounting required for a complete analysis. It is useful - especially from a strategic perspective, and it is easy to assimilate. I was able to get through about 80% of the text in a weekend. The last one-third of the text consists of a "Toolbox" of spreadsheet examples and methods to apply in analyzing your own company - or potential investments. I underlined and highlighted extensively and expect to re-read parts until the ideas are mastered.

I purchased this book to help solidify an understanding on operating capital and ratios to gauge the health of our new business. The books is very easy to read for a finance book and explains concepts clearly. It's good to understand how to build a framework to manage the working capital and understand the true financial health of a new business.

Every 8th page for the whole book has it’s ink halfway ran out.Book seems great but low quality distracts me from reading it.AMAZON GAVE ME A NEW ONE

This book is an excellent resource for the layman who desires to have a working knowledge of accounting practices. You will be able to examine all the financial documents necessary to run a business and to do that with confidence. Worth the money and time.

I stumbled across this (or, really, algorithm recommendation) this summer, sadly after I finished my first grad degree. Now on my second grad degree, one of my professors assigned us this book. If you're not a business analytics, accountant, or hard core MBA but need to understand the "basics plus" of finance, then you should read this book. It's written for us normal people, it's easy to digest, and even has exercises in the back you can work through. Paired with some online classes like Lynda.com (I'm not paid, I just like to round out my learning with some "lectures" vice only reading) you should be able to understand what finance people are talking about as it relates to your business.

This book has been great so far. I am really enjoying it and finding the info very helpful. Well written.