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CCH's Corporate Controller's Handbook of Financial Management is a comprehensive source of practical solutions, strategies, techniques, procedures, and formulas covering all key aspects of accounting and financial management. Its examples, checklists, step-by-step instructions, and other practical working tools simplify complex financial management issues and give CFOs, corporate financial managers, and controllers quick answers to day-to-day questions. The Handbook covers important developments in government rules, accounting procedures, taxation and information technology. It includes references to relevant topics of the FASB Accounting Standards Codification references, as well as Accounting Standards Updates. The practical, hands-on guidance helps diagnose a firm's financial health, boost financial results, avoid unpleasant surprises, cut costs, and make financial decisions with confidence. This edition also includes a free, back-of-the book CD-ROM containing searchable PDFs of each chapter, along with the following Excel forms: --Capital Budgeting: Advice of Project Change Form --Capital Budgeting: Appropriation Request Form --Capital Budgeting: Economic Feasibility Study for a New Information System --Capital Budgeting: Initial Cash Outlay and Operating Costs Checklist for a New Information System --Capital Budgeting: Lease Versus Purchase Evaluation Report --Capital Budgeting: Project Application Form --Internal Control: Internal Control Assessment Form --Internal Control: Computer Applications --Checklist: Medium to Large Business --Internal Control: Financial Reporting Information Systems and Controls Checklist Medium to Large Business --Variance Analysis: Daily Labor Mix Report --Variance Analysis: Daily Material Usage Report by Week