244: Improve Your Financial Intelligence, with Joe Knight - a podcast by Dave Stachowiak

Joe Knight: Financial Intelligence
Joe Knight, co-author of Financial Intelligence*, teaches us how to improve our own financial intelligence, so we can influence within organizations more effectively. He is a highly regarded finance and business literacy keynote speaker, trainer, and published author.Quotes
Those who understand [financial statements]are the vast minority of people who are moving up in the corporate environment.
—Joe KnightOne of the problems with fraud is that you have these companies reporting profit, but it wasn’t real profit, and it was never converting to real cash.
—Joe KnightWall street, other investors, and banks have shifted to looking at cashflow as a concrete, tangible number.
—Joe KnightIt’s important never to lose sight of the fact that cash flow almost eliminates the possibility of fraudulent financial reporting.
—Joe KnightWe’re not trying to create high-level financial people; we’re trying to decode [financial statements] for the rest of us.—Joe Knight
ResourcesBusiness Literacy Institute
The 100 Best Business Books of All TimeHBR Tools: Return on Investment (ROI) by Joe Knight
HBR Tools: EBITDA by Joe KnightHBR Tools: Business Valuation by Joe Knight

Resources for Business Literacy Institute:Online Financial Intelligence Training
Financial Concepts DictionaryTake the Financial Intelligence Assessment

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