1. Making Profit: Getting to a Good Bottom Line 3

2. Wringing Cash Flow from Profit: It Ain’t Over Until You See the Money.

3. Investing in Assets: It Takes Money to Make Money.

4. Raising Capital: The Ultimate Sale.

PART TWO: Building a Business.

5. Getting a Grip on Profit—Instead of Operating by the Seat of Your Pants.

6. Safeguarding and Improving Profit: The Profit Power of Price Versus Volume.

7. Growing Pains: Finding Enough Cash for Growth.

8. Taxes and More Taxes: If It Can Be Taxed, It Is Taxed.

9. Preventing Fraud against Business: Controls for Combating Fraud Attacks.

10. Managing Your Profit Accounting: You Might Massage the Numbers, but Don’t Cook the Books.

PART THREE: Selling or Burying a Business.

11. Business Valuation: The Endgame.

12. Terminating a Business: When the Dog No Longer Hunts.

Accounting and Financial Glossary.

Index.