ABSTRACT

In today's aggressive marketplace, listed companies can no longer rely on their numbers to do the talking. If companies can't communicate their achievements and strategy, mounting research evidence suggests, they will be overlooked, their cost of capital will increase and stock price will suffer.

In Strategic Financial and Investor Communication: the stock price story  Ian Westbrook, principal of Australia's leading independent financial communications firm, argues just this: stock price is more a story than a number. Moreover, the book will teach you how to tell your own story by guiding you through the fast-paced world of financial corporate communication with a professional's pragmatism as well as academic rigour.

Whether you're a student or a professional of PR, investor relations or corporate communications, this much-needed guide will teach you how to tell a compelling story about your company that the stockbroker, fund manager and corporate media cannot ignore.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|18 pages

Applying theory from communication

chapter 6|29 pages

Numbers and the corporate story

chapter 7|19 pages

Disclosure and the communication context

chapter 8|16 pages

The financial marketplace

chapter 10|20 pages

Communicating with the business media

chapter 11|17 pages

Communicating with shareholders

chapter 12|16 pages

Transactions and issues

M&A, IPO and crisis