Resources

Financial analysis

Sources of tools and techniques for analysing and presenting financial data

Analysing your business with Excel

Microsoft Excel MVP Charley Kyd presents tools, free downloads and tips on using Excel to analyse business data.

Disclaimer: I liked these ideas so much I bought the book.

Last reviewed 15 September 2007

Balanced Scorecard Collaborative

Don’t utter the words “Balanced Scorecard” unless you’ve read Kaplan and Norton’s original articles about the Balanced Scorecard idea. If you can’t find those old copies of Harvard Business Review, try Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard Collaborative website.

The bad news: you must proffer a valid email address and sign up to read the articles.

Last reviewed 27 September 2007

Daniel Kahneman’s Nobel Prize lecture

Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2002, but he is not an economist. His work is in the ‘psychology of intuitive beliefs and choices’, in other words, how we make economic choices.

His Nobel Prize lecture, Maps of Bounded Rationality: A perspective on intuitive judgment and choice, is a summary of the history of his original work with Amos Tversky and recent developments in the field.

Last reviewed 8 February 2008