Corporate Financial Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780415640411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 390 str.

Ruth Bender

Opis

The field of Corporate Finance has developed into a fairly complex one from its origins focussed on a company's business and financial needs (financing, risk management, capitalization and budgeting). Corporate Financial Strategy provides a critical introduction to the field and in doing so shows how organizations' financial strategies can be aligned with their overall business strategies.

Retaining the popular fundamentals of previous editions, the new edition brings things up to date with an array of new examples and cases, new pedagogical features such as learning objectives and suggested further reading, and includes new material on mergers and acquisitions, and valuations and forecasting.

Unlike other textbooks, Ruth Bender writes from the perspective of the firm rather than the investor. Combined with a structure driven by issues, the result is a textbook which is perfectly suited to those studying corporate finance and financial strategy at advanced undergraduate, postgraduate and executive education levels.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Corporate Financial Strategy: Setting the Context  2. What does the Share Price tell us?  3. Executive Summary: Linking Corporate and Financial Strategies  4. Linking Corporate and Financial Strategies  5. Financial Strategies over the Lifecycle  6. Corporate Governance and Financial Strategy  7. Start-Up Businesses and Venture Capital  8. Growth Companies  9. Mature Companies  10. Declining Businesses: A Case for Euthanasia?  11. Financial Instruments: The Building Blocks  12. Types of Financial Instrument  13. Dividends and Buybacks  14. Valuations and Forecasting  15. Floating a Company  16. Acquisitions and Selling a Business  17. Restructuring a Company  18. Private Equity  19. International Corporate Finance  20. Strategic Working Capital Management  Appendix 1: Review of Theories of Finance  Appendix 2: Valuing Options and Convertibles

O autorze

Ruth Bender is Reader in Corporate Financial Strategy at Cranfield University, UK. Prior to becoming an academic she was a corporate finance partner with one of the UK's larger accounting firms and has also worked as a venture capital manager in the city