Michael Blackstaff

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Finance for IT Decision Makers covers those aspects of finance relevant to IT professionals in both business and non-commercial organizations who make or influence decisions about IT.

Many 'IT' people don’t like 'finance' very much.  At best it leaves them indifferent; at worst they just wish it would go away. 'Finance' is the thing that has incomprehensible jargon and charges budgets with costs that were never incurred.

Finance for IT Decision Makers throws light on to the twilight zone where these two disciplines meet. Assuming no prior knowledge of finance, it takes the reader step by step through each IT-relevant financial topic.

"Every company out there has someone who should read this" - The Bookseller

About the author

Michael Blackstaff is a chartered accountant and a member of BCS. He has over thirty years' finance, marketing and training experience in the IT industry and with its customers in many industries. His published work includes two technical booklets (with S Nasser) published by the Faculty of Information Technology of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, 'The Leasing of IT Acquisitions' (1995) and 'The Depreciation of IT Equipment' (1993). Self-employed since 1993, he teaches courses on finance and accounting for non-financial managers and salespeople in IT and other industries. His courses have been successfully adapted and taught in other countries.

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