If you're not a numbers person, then finance can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, you'll need to make smart financial decisions and develop the confidence to clearly communicate those decisions to others. In How Finance Works, Mihir Desai-a professor at Harvard Business School and author of The Wisdom of Finance-guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance, demystifying it in the process. Chapter 1 focuses on creating a foundation in financial analysis that provides much of the language of finance. How do you interpret economic performance using historical financial accounts? What do all those ratios and numbers mean? A challenging but fun game will allow you to see the real-world relevance of the many ratios that finance focuses on.