Finance for IT decision makers : a practical handbook

Finance is as fundamental to the IT world as it is to most other aspects of life. However, many IT professionals lack knowledge of the particular financial principles on which decisions about IT should be based - decisions that often have serious financial implications for their organisations. Assum...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Blackstaff, Michael, 1939-
Corporate Author British Computer Society
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published London : BCS, 2012.
Edition3rd ed.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781780171234
1780171234
9781628702545
1628702540
1780171226
9781780171227
9781780171241
1780171242
9781780171258
1780171250
Physical Description1 online resource (xix, 258 pages)

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Table of Contents:
  • Finance and accounts: the basics
  • Decisions, decisions ...
  • Financial cases and business cases
  • When is a benefit not a benefit?
  • How financial cases are evaluated: part 1
  • How financial cases are evaluated: part 2
  • The effects of taxation
  • Depreciation of IT assets
  • IT financing and leasing
  • Outsourcing: financial aspects
  • Budgeting, costing and pricing: the basics
  • Financial analysis: the basics
  • A1: Discount tables
  • A2: Financial characteristics of different businesses
  • A3: Published accounts
  • A4: Accounting for long-term contracts
  • A5: Debit and credit.