Format:
1 online resource (317 pages)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
9780750648998
,
9780080490816
Content:
Corporate Financial Strategy is a practical guide to understanding the elements of financial strategy, and how directors and advisors can add value by tailoring financial strategy to complement corporate strategy. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company's life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture capital * Flotation on a stock exchange * Making acquisitions * Management buyouts * Financial restructuring In explaining financing structures, the book sets out the basic building blocks of any financial instrument to enable the reader to appreciate innovations in the field. It also illustrates how and why different types of security might be used. The second edition of this very popular textbook brings to bear the considerable commercial and academic experience of its co-authors. Throughout, the book offers a range of up-to-date case studies, abundant diagrams and figures, and frequent 'Working Insight' sections to provide practical illumination of the theory. This book will enable you to understand the potential value added by the best financial strategy, while fully demonstrating the working role of financial strategy within an overall corporate strategy. An excellent practical guide for senior financial managers, strategic-decision makers and qualified accountants, the text is also invaluable as a clear-sighted and thorough companion for students and senior executives on finance courses (including MBA, MSc and DMS)
Note:
Cover -- Corporate Financial Strategy -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface to second edition -- Preface to first edition -- PART 1: PUTTING FINANCIAL STRATEGY IN CONTEXT -- 1. Corporate financial strategy: setting the context -- 2. What does the share price tell us? -- 3. Linking corporate and financial strategies -- PART 2: FINANCIAL STRATEGY AND THE CORPORATE LIFECYCLE -- 4. Start up businesses and venture capital -- 5. Growth companies: marketing focused -- 6. Mature companies - to divi or not? -- 7. Declining businesses - a case for euthanasia? -- PART 3: FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS -- 8. Financial instruments: the building blocks -- 9. Types of financial instrument -- 10. Dividends and buybacks -- PART 4: TRANSACTIONS AND OPERATING ISSUES -- 11. Floating a company -- 12. Acquisitions, mergers and selling a business -- 13. Restructuring a company -- 14. Management buyouts and other leveraged transactions -- 15. Strategic working capital management -- 16. Executive compensation -- 17. International corporate finance -- APPENDICES -- Appendix 1: Review of theories of finance -- Appendix 2: Valuing options and convertibles -- Glossary of selected financial terms -- Discount table: present value of £1 -- Discount table: present value of £1 received annually for N years -- Black-Scholes value of a call option -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Bender, Ruth Corporate Financial Strategy Saint Louis : Taylor & Francis Group,c2002 ISBN 9780750648998
Language:
English
Keywords:
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