ABSTRACT

Corporate Financial Strategy presents a practical guide to how corporate finance can be used to add value to a business. Explaining the elements of a financial strategy, it shows how these can be tailored to suit the needs of an organisation and complement its business strategy.

The third edition of this bestselling textbook brings together the extensive commercial and academic experience of Dr Bender and Professor Ward. Including an abundance of diagrams and examples, the book explains the business and financial issues which underlie the investment cases and business plans used in making strategic decisions and in raising finance from lenders and investors. This book is an essential read for all those involved in designing and implementing corporate and financial strategy.

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Part 1: Putting Financial Strategy in Context

part |1 pages

Part 2: Financial Strategy and the Corporate Lifecycle

chapter 7|18 pages

Start-up businesses and venture capital

chapter 8|21 pages

Growth companies: Marketing focused

chapter 9|16 pages

Mature companies: To divi or not?

chapter 10|11 pages

Declining businesses: A case for euthanasia?

part |1 pages

Part 3: Financial Instruments

chapter 11|15 pages

Financial instruments: The building blocks

chapter 12|18 pages

Types of fi nancial instrument

chapter 13|14 pages

Dividends and buybacks

part |1 pages

Part 4: Transactions and Operating Issues

chapter 14|15 pages

Floating a company

chapter 15|18 pages

Acquisitions, mergers and selling a business

chapter 16|10 pages

Restructuring a company

chapter 17|23 pages

Private equity

chapter 18|15 pages

International corporate fi nance

chapter 19|11 pages

Strategic working capital management

part |1 pages

Appendices

chapter 1|16 pages

Review of theories of fi nance

chapter 2|13 pages

Valuing options and convertibles

chapter 3|9 pages

Forecasting