In this book, you will see all the functions entrusted to finance by management, including accounting, internal control, budgeting and data analysis; Can see Huawei's requirements for financial personnel, understand business, understand business, understand customers and understand end customers; You lead Ren to ask where the best financial personnel should be.
Financial progress is the foundation of all progress. As the language of business activities, finance should not only be translated well, but also strive for "faithfulness, expressiveness and beauty". Trust means that financial accounting should be true, which requires that the business data of financial accounting objects should be as little as possible, as real as possible, and the data circulation should be smooth, efficient, true and objective. Reach, that is to say, finance should be able to fully describe the whole picture of business activities, not only surgeons, but also physicians, who can see the appearance and understand the essence; Beauty means that we can use effective financial resources to interpret the complicated business world.
Highlight: Choosing finance means choosing lifelong learning. Charles Munger said that human society can only develop by inventing methods. In the same way, you can make progress only if you learn the methods of learning.
This book is to teach us to learn "effective learning methods" and jump out of the low-level diligence circle.
The author defines knowledge as "knowledge that can change our actions", which means that information is not knowledge, and "use" is to judge whether you have mastered knowledge. This is the biggest feature that distinguishes adult learning from student learning.
Effective learning should be to learn those basic knowledge, which is what the author calls "critical knowledge". The effective ways to learn critical knowledge are: reflection, taking teaching as learning and deliberate practice.
Through reflection, the daily scene is biochemical and the model is extracted. For example, if you attend a business negotiation today, you can have a reflection after the negotiation, sum up your own experience and shortcomings, and refine the business negotiation model.
To make sense of teaching as learning and simulating yourself as a teacher, we must first think clearly, sort out the ins and outs of knowledge and get through the blockage of knowledge.
Deliberate practice refers to breaking the concept circle one by one, making every knowledge point an excuse to open, and having the ability to accept new knowledge, new chunks and new models.
When learning key knowledge, we need to have two kinds of mentality, that is, green light thinking and taking slow as fast.
Green light thinking is to have an open mind, embrace new thinking first and don't contradict it.
Slow is fast, that is, using kung fu on real problems and learning from things.
Highlight: The most exciting part of this book is Charles Munger's three speeches. What are the most useful business wisdom? How to get a wonderful life? Why do smart people make mistakes? In these three speeches, his views are as follows:
The surest way to get what you want is to make yourself worthy of it.
Munger emphasizes the role of internal factors and personal efforts, and everything starts from the inside. Eggs broken from the outside are food, and broken from the inside are life. If you want to achieve a certain goal, then you must take stock of the gap in achieving the goal, and it will gradually be worthwhile to shorten the gap.
Correct love should be based on admiration, and we should love those sages who are instructive to us.
A typical application scenario of this sentence in the workplace is "How to deal with the relationship between superiors and subordinates". When facing the incompatible relationship between superiors and subordinates, we should reflect, admire the superiors and admire the subordinates, so as to form a harmonious relationship of "love". On the contrary, you should see the bright spot of the superior leader, not stare at the shortcomings, so as to fully accept the correction of the leader and listen to the opinions of others. For subordinates, we should cultivate our own bright spots and let them see our bright spots, otherwise it is an abnormal management relationship.
Of course, other scenarios that can be used, such as how to deal with the relationship between parents and children, are instructive.
The essence of this sentence is to tell us how to establish a "love" relationship.
"If you just remember some isolated things and try to put them together, then you can't really understand anything. If these things are not interrelated within a theoretical framework, you can't come in handy. You must have some thinking patterns in your mind. You must rely on the framework of these models to arrange your experiences, both indirect and direct. "
Charles Munger advocated the establishment of interdisciplinary thinking mode to solve practical problems. The traditional professionalism is to use knowledge to solve problems in a certain field, which requires in-depth research in a certain field and professional spirit to solve problems well. Interdisciplinary thinking means that all methods and laws that can solve this problem can be used.
For example, financial analysis is an accounting concept, and it can't be done well only with accounting professional knowledge. Financial analysis needs to use statistical concepts, economic concepts, accounting professional knowledge and industry knowledge, which together will have strong financial analysis ability.
This book is a classic book worth reading again and again. Only the above points are listed for the classic viewpoints in the book, and the rest will be excavated and pondered after everyone has read it.
Highlight: This is an efficient way of thinking, which has spread in Oxford and Cambridge.
This book introduces the routine of smart people to exercise their brains, disassemble questions and find answers, and tells us how to exercise their brains like muscles.
By reading this book and practicing the 52 routines mentioned by the author, you will improve your concentration, memory, creativity, lateral thinking, interpersonal communication, the ability to master new skills and the ability to find the best solution.
Concentration is our most precious resource, especially in the modern era full of all kinds of massive information. How to maintain or improve our concentration, the author gives two steps: sorting out messy thoughts and concentrating.
When you want to calm down and read a book, you may just sit down and suddenly remember something you haven't done or want to read it on WeChat. Such a messy mood is a black hole that devours time. This is what the author said: clean up the messy emotions. When I want to study, I first get rid of the miscellaneous things that hinder my quiet study and don't give myself an opportunity to make excuses. The second step is to concentrate. You can meditate in your mind and give yourself a hint of concentration.
Memory is the foundation of all learning. Strong memory can link new knowledge with old knowledge, and then produce new knowledge chunks, achieving the effect of comprehensive and flexible application.
Memory is a skill that can be practiced. Mr. Qian Zhongshu never forgets anything. According to Mr. Jiang Yang, it is because of Mr. Qian Zhongshu's repeated reading and notes. Hard skills are nothing but kung fu.
Creativity is not a flash of inspiration, but a sudden appearance of inspiration. Take time out of work. Although people in our workplace are busy working every day, we should learn to relax properly. When our body and brain are in soft focus mode, we often think of good ideas.
In short, smart people are good at discovering routines and using routines. Fortunately, for us ordinary people, there is such a book that introduces the routines of smart people.
Highlight: This book is about how to change your life through reading. The author of this book changed the author's life from being in debt of 4 million to becoming a bestseller by reading. Based on the reading experience of the protagonist Hong, this book introduces three stages of reading, namely, basic orientation stage, intensive orientation reading and deep orientation reading.
Basic directional reading is to lay a solid reading foundation by reading more than 100 books related to your own business field.
Strengthening directional reading means reading 365 self-enlightening books a year, so as to have a successful way of thinking.
Deep-oriented reading is to make yourself a leader by reading classic books on humanities.
It is through these three stages that the protagonist of this book successfully changed his tragic situation of being neglected, poor in performance and exhausted by splint, realized the triple jump of life and started a new life through reading.
Open this book to understand the unique charm of reading and realize life.
As financial personnel, we often face such an embarrassing situation. We have data on all aspects of enterprise operation, but we can't provide effective data analysis for enterprise operators. In other words, data is the core resource of an enterprise, and financial personnel have the unique advantage of mastering this information, but we can't use it or use it. How can financial personnel become the wives of enterprises with the help of data analysis tools? I believe this is an urgent question for financial personnel to answer.
The author of this book introduces the project context, penetrates the pearl of knowledge, and scans the whole process of data analysis project, including five stages: design scheme, data collection, data processing, data analysis and data presentation; Analyze data analysis project cases and restore the true face and value of data analysis. The book introduces many concepts and tools of data analysis, which is a quite thorough data analysis tool book for financial personnel who need to break through the bottleneck of data analysis.
This book is a one-hour series of e-books in Zhihu, and its content is quite dry.
Finance is neither a science nor an art, and looks closer to engineering science, but finance is super-integrated. The essence of finance is to give us a pair of financial eyes and explore the unknown world with digital thinking.
How can we make our financial eyes?
l？ Think ahead.
Finance is based on assumptions, and forward-looking thinking tells us that assumptions should be repeatedly demonstrated and conclusions should be rigorous.
The two-dimensional test method eliminated by Professor Sorensen teaches people in the workplace how to think effectively.
Include reliability hypothesis and authenticity hypothesis.
Reliability hypothesis: If hypothesis A holds, will B be obtained?
Assumption of authenticity: whether hypothesis A holds.
For example, when the product cost of a manufacturing enterprise is too high, we may assume that it is caused by the excessive allocation of fixed costs caused by insufficient output.
Reliability assumption: When the output is large enough, the product cost will decrease.
Assumption of authenticity: As long as the output is large enough, the cost will be reduced.
l？ Data wisdom is the foundation of finance.
The essential function of finance is to reflect and supervise. The reflection function is a reflection of the whole business picture based on comprehensive, true and objective data. Finance is like a mirror, and the quality of data determines the quality of the mirror, whether it is a flat mirror or a mirror. Comprehensive, true and objective reflection is the basis of financial supervision. Therefore, to do finance, we must lay a solid foundation for business information and financial information. Business departments should be responsible for the quality of business data, and whoever generates the data should be responsible. Financial personnel should be able to mine data in business activities, and the depth of data mining determines the depth and dimension of analysis. Financial personnel should know how to integrate data resources, and different combinations of data and information will collide with different sparks.
Data is the foundation of financial wisdom, and financial personnel should grasp the whole picture of the company's operation through data to provide support for financial personnel to play their management functions.
If you are a college student majoring in finance and economics, or an accountant entering the workplace for the first time, it is highly recommended to read this book, which can save you a lot of detours in the financial workplace.
The author divides the financial workplace into three stages:
The first five years of the financial workplace are the basic work stage of finance. Financial personnel generally exercise in basic positions such as expense accounting, asset accounting and sales accounting, and focus on cultivating financial execution at this stage. Through basic financial work, take a step forward and think about how to strive for accuracy and efficiency of financial data. At this stage, we should not only comprehensively apply accounting and tax laws, but also establish a good attitude, deeply understand the essence of finance and comprehensively operate financial professional knowledge in the process of doing practical work.
The second five years of the financial workplace is the stage of financial leadership. Financial personnel are generally promoted to the positions of financial supervisor, cost management, tax management or financial manager through the training of basic accounting positions. At this stage, we should learn to go deep into business activities from financial information and understand the business significance behind each financial data. At this stage, it is not only financial expertise that supports the development of the workplace, but also expanding one's own business knowledge, understanding the characteristics of the company's industry, and understanding the upstream and downstream supply chain operation mode of the company. By interpreting financial information and non-financial information, we can guide business norms and optimize business operation mode.
The third stage of the financial workplace is the financial decision-making stage. After nearly 10 years of training, financial personnel will be promoted to chief financial officer, have more contact with the company's strategy and participate in the company's project investment and capital operation business.
In addition, if financial personnel want to get continuous promotion in the workplace, then learning is essential. Certificates of financial personnel emerge in an endless stream. We can promote learning through exams and establish a complete financial knowledge system with the help of exams.
In addition to professional knowledge, you need to learn soft skills, including fast learning ability, communication and expression ability, organization and coordination ability, and management cooperation ability.
If you just graduated and don't know how to choose an employment unit, you can open this book to find the answer;
If you are confused about the future development of financial personnel, you can open this book to find a route;
If you are interested in what abilities financial personnel need in the workplace, you can open this book to cultivate your own soft and hard abilities.
If you want to find a role model or mentor in the financial workplace, then the author is the object you are looking for. Reading this book is like the author throwing you 13 of the essence of financial career.
Reading is a good way to learn. A book can systematically learn a subject knowledge in 2-3 hours, which is a very cost-effective investment.
Finance not only does accounting, but also needs to have financial service ability and financial control ability in the transitional era, which requires financial personnel to understand not only professional knowledge, but also business, master effective learning methods and improve their learning ability, which is the basis of all abilities.