Visual Finance: The One Page Visual Model to Understand Financial Statements and Make Better Business Decisions

by Georgi Tsvetanov

Visual Finance is a powerful, simple tool that you can learn in just a couple of hours and easily apply to real life. Over the past five years, this model has been used in thousands of “finance for non-financial managers” training sessions in more than 30 countries. Accounting is often perceived as being tedious, complicated, and too theoretical. Non-financial managers are less than enthusiastic about accounting. One possible cause is the way business schools teach it. In a recent study only 46% of respondents had average or higher financial literacy and could understand financial statements. Stop avoiding financial topics during team meetings. Save your company from making costly mistakes and start maximizing all your valuable opportunities.

Genres: Finance, Business, Economics, Accounting, Nonfiction

180 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 17, 2015

Reviews

[Grigor Svetoslavov · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is light reading compared to other financial books. It's easier to read, and shorter. It's also more up to date. Highly recommended for any business person or student. Key learnings:
-- Understand the big business picture
-- Analyze how cash flow and financial balance are affected by management decisions
-- Understand and interpret financial statements

[Edwinra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This MUST be read by those who are taking major in finance or accounting. This book simplified the basic concept in understanding accounting (finance and management) and also in finance management. But i don't really get the One Page Visual Model, maybe the author can describe the techniques more detailed.

[Abner Huertas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a quite good book. it delivers good concepts that are useful and helps you to remember it.

One thing I didn't like was the poor formating of the electronic book, too much white spaces and the poor quality of the pictures.

[Suwitcha Chandhorn · Rating 5 out of 5]

หนังสือเกี่ยวกับการเงินและสรุปสูตรการคำนวณเล่มเล็ก อ่านง่าย (แต่เรื่องมันซับซ้อนนะ) มีตัวอย่างที่ให้เห็นภาพชัดดี เหมาะจะเอาไว้อ่านทบทวนและนำไปปรับใช้กับกิจการ

[Setyo Tri Windrasmara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Providing good basics for finance, especially for non-finance people. Though, the message that wanted to be delivered (one-page model) is not delivered nicely, or even not at all..

[Jovita Widyanti · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buku ini tidak hanya menjelaskan mengenai bagaimana keuangan bisa diterjemahkan dalam bahasa bisnis yang mudah, namun juga menjelaskan mengenai teknik analisisnya tahap dasar.

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• Memiliki ilustrasi yang tidak membosankan
• Menggunakan kata-kata yang mudah dipahami
• Penggunaan warna dalam buku ini sangatlah seimbang sehingga tidak menyakitkan mata
• Materi yang diulas merupakan dasar-dasarnya dari keuangan secara singkat dan padat
• Terdapat contoh kasus dan pembahasan

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• Ada beberapa kata terjemahan yang 'agak' tidak nyambung


Buku ini sangatlah cocok tidak hanya untuk kalangan praktisi yang akan mengajarkan kepada mentees, juga bisa untuk para awam yang hendak terjun menggali dunia bisnis ataupun para akademisi yang sedang menyelesaikan sekolahnya

[Juan Ramón · Rating 5 out of 5]

Recommended for people with little of not experience in the topic. If you do have previous experience it's a very helpful and practical book to remember basic and key points on the topic.

I have a Bachelor in Finance so this book is kind of basic for me. However it helped be to review vital information that I have forgotten. I recommend this book if you have little or not experience in finance topics. If you do have previous experience it's a very helpful and practical book to remember basic and key points on the topic.

[Juvoni · Rating 3 out of 5]

An alternative teaching of an involved topic, aimed at beginners to learn financial statements and the fundamental accounting operations of a business. I appreciated the author's creativity in trying to explain financial and accounting concepts through illustrations. If you have sufficient experience in business, this book might be too beginner level and can be skipped. Early year business school students or employees who haven’t taken business schools seem to be the target audience.

[Devie · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a good start for me (personally) to dig deeper about financial literacy. It explain important things in financial statement. But, if it comes to analyzing the financial statement itself, i think, is not comprehensive. So yeah, if you are clueless about financial statements of such companies, this book is great for you.

[Loraine · Rating 1 out of 5]

The "visual" part of this book is just doodles of objects and adds absolutely nothing to facilitate understanding. I'm a visual information designer whose entire job is to create visuals that help people learn complex technical subjects, and this is such a laughably bad excuse for such a thing.

[Ana · Rating 2 out of 5]

Good first encounter with finance

[Gary L Rau · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic coverage of subject. Don't see how this could be useful as a presentation tool.

[Indah Threez Lestari · Rating 3 out of 5]

388 - 2020

[Nikhil · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book for beginners

If you enjoyed this book then I suggest you to go for Financial Shananigans. Book is based on how to detect fraud in financial statement

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent primer or refresher. Short, simple, and straightforward

[Ronald Salim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buku yang bagus untuk orang dengan latar belakang non finance , investor pasar modal

[Brian Weisz · Rating 1 out of 5]

Basic, undeveloped concepts. Poor logical flow. Poor formatting. I do not believe any editor has ever looked at this book.

[Bradfor Harrison · Rating 5 out of 5]

Easy Finance

This book was great for getting the basics down using visual aids. I learned a lot going through it and I think others will too.

[Nada Farhani · Rating 4 out of 5]

Visually interesting by one page visual model and easy to digest

[Milos Mirosavljevic · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice & quick read that provides the basics of corporate finance. For those who have zero knowledge about it, this is a very good starting point.

[Chenfan Feng · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great info. Poor formatting and wordings.

It's a value packed book that helps clarify the necessary terms and measurements in accounting. The formatting can be confusing and some sentences and wordings are awkward. There are also a few typos and punctuation errors. Excellent book overall.

[Marcus · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was an ok read, but keep in mind it was also about accounting. I was hopeful because I like the idea. I learned some things, I was bored, I learned some more, I was bored again - it could just be the fact that it's on accounting and finance... so, worth it? Could use some edits and fixes.

[steve tang · Rating 5 out of 5]

Decent book for beginners. Good review too for people who has some knowledge about accounting

Highly recommended. It relates to business well. Managers who need a quick review on accounting is recommended to read this book.

[Revian A. Putra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is simple, has brief explanations and good illustrations, this is the first step for those who want to start learning finance. But not recommended for those that already understand financial basic

[Stephen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a good introduction to finance. If you are rusty on your business finances it is a good refresher. I would recommend for anyone who is relatively green in financial concepts.

[Robert S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. Couldn't put it down!It is a skillfully written narrative of the economic policies in the world's leading nations leading to the Great Depression with the Visual Finance.

[Nah Wee Yang · Rating 4 out of 5]

Probably the only financial management book you need to read if you are a entrepreneur running a small business, not formally trained in financial management, and a visual learner.

[MaleBeetle42 · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had no idea how to do finance and this helped me so much. Easy to read and apply

[Srinivasan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Starts off really well but later just starts listing all the ratios and different terms. It became very dry. Also don't get the kindle version as its not formatted for that. The tables are all messed up to the point they are useless.

[Lisa Aldridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and enjoyable. On kindle the charts are screwed up and hard to read. This is a great resource for students and professors.