ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |101 pages
Putting financial strategy into context
chapter |16 pages
What does the share price tell us?
chapter |13 pages
Linking corporate and financial strategies
chapter |23 pages
Financial strategies over the life cycle
chapter |19 pages
Corporate governance and financial strategy
part |66 pages
Financial strategy and the corporate life cycle
chapter |22 pages
Start-up businesses and venture capital
chapter |19 pages
Growth companies
chapter |14 pages
Mature companies
part |53 pages
Financial instruments
part |123 pages
Transactions and operating issues