If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. “If you can speak the language of money, you will be more successful,” says Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School.
Source: Harvard Business Review, March 31, 2017.
Finance and accounting are very simple. It’s mostly addition and subtraction and occasionally some multiplication and division. There’s no magic.” offers author/consultant Joe Knight. He adds that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.”