A Handbook in Business Management

About the Book

Present-day enterprises need insights into markets, customers and their own internal processes faster than their competitors to capitalise on opportunities and to deliver sustainable business performance. To do this, businesses must learn to cope with the high volume and velocity of real-time structured and unstructured data in different formats. In covering the fields of manpower development, accounting procedures and data processing, a middle-of-the-road analysis has been made to include those overlapping developments in business studies. Disciplines like accountancy and electronic data processing frequently have unavoidable use in commerce and industry. A Handbook in Business Management examines organisation and manpower management and reflects on their significant role in the arena of business management. The objective with manpower management is to distribute personnel to activities where their talents are required and are best utilised. In financial control, the book examines both the technical and managerial approaches. The technical approach is concerned with measurement where an analysis is made as to whether resources are being assigned to the right categories and whether generally accepted accounting principles are being followed. And the managerial approach is to understand and interpret what the financial figures mean. Critically, all managers should take responsibility for financial management and should not assume that this falls within the remit of the accounts team alone. Under data processing concepts, the book takes an overview of the availability, continuity, and security of data in public and private concerns. An efficient data processing system makes it possible to adjust the financial situation of a business before it gets out of hand by adjusting income distribution and combating organisation and manpower inefficiency. This book offers to the professional student and corporate executive a preliminary survey of the fields of manpower development, accountancy and electronic data processing; while the start-up entrepreneur may find in its pages something to stimulate reflection upon those larger issues in business management.

About the Author

A national of Zimbabwe, JACOB CHIKUHWA holds degrees in economics and international relations from the Kiev Institute of National Economy in Ukraine, and the University of Stockholm in Sweden. He has worked as an economist and administrator in the public and private sectors for over 30 years and has lectured on economics, finance, management information systems and administration. In 1964, as an activist for a democratic Zimbabwe, Chikuhwa was arrested by the white minority Rhodesian Front regime. After having been released, he escaped into Zambia in 1966 where he secured an Afro-Asian scholarship to study economics in the former Soviet Union. Upon completion of his studies in Kiev in 1972, Chikuhwa moved to Sweden. After completing his studies at the University of Stockholm, Chikuhwa got a job in the Swedish Postverkets Industrier. Chikuhwa returned to Zimbabwe at independence in 1980. At the end of 1989, he once again went into exile in Sweden where he ended his career in the Swedish Postal Service Internal Audit in 1999. Chikuhwa published his first book on Zimbabwe titled Zimbabwe: the Rise to Nationhood in 1998. After turning to writing full-time, he has published nine more titles and is working on a new title, Zimbabwe: The End of the First Republic, to coincide with the promulgation of Zimbabwe’s home-grown constitution. Jacob Chikuhwa is married with two children; is a grandfather and lives in Stockholm with his wife.