How to wise-up on business & finance

This book collects together the content of separate pages on the website www.quantitative-wheezing.co.uk as displayed under the general heading “Business & Finance”.
The book reaches out to the young or mature student or simply to the intellectually inquisitive feeling the need for a general perspective on this huge subject. A perspective drawn from experience rather than pure technical study. The reader will find that, at times, humour takes over. This is deliberate. The ability to make a parody of serious issues may often save the day.
The order of play leads from the shallow surface water to the deep undercurrent; just dip in where the fancy takes you. The book includes a history of the UK stock market and sets out the fundamentals of investing, the structure of the market, share value terminology, how to choose an investment strategy and some consequences of such a choice. The author passes on a few thoughts for a reader thinking about becoming a management consultant.
Because some of the most popular aspects of the website www.quantitative-wheezing.co.uk are consistently items on the balance sheet, this book concludes with explaining how this most important financial statement arises once a new business starts to trade.
It takes the example of a butcher setting up shop and distinguishes between capital and revenue costs and shows in simple terms how a profit & loss account is created and can then be manipulated. The intention is to simplify what to most business people is a needlessly opaque process. The balance sheet is debunked.