If you're not a numbers person, then balance sheets and financial jargon can be intimidating and easy to ignore. But if you want to advance in your career, it's crucial that you are able 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 widely praised book The Wisdom of Finance - guides you into the complex but endlessly fascinating world of finance and demystifies it in the process.