Corporate financial strategy

Includes index

Putting financial strategy in context - Corporate financial strategy: setting the context; What does the share price tell us?; Linking corporate and financial strategies; Financial strategy and the corporate lifecycle - Start up businesses and venture capital; Growth companies: marketing focused; Mature companies - to divi or not?; Declining businesses - a case for euthanasia?; Financial instruments - Financial instruments: the building blocks; Types of financial instrument; Dividends and buybacks; Transactions and operating issues - Floating a company; Acquisitions; mergers and selling a business; Restructuring a company; Management buyouts and other leveraged transactions; Strategic working capital management; Executive compensation; International corporate finance; Appendices - Review of theories of finance; Valuing options and convertibles; Glossary; Discount tables.

Serves as 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. This book discusses the practicalities behind transactions, such as: raising venture capital; flotation on a stock exchange; making acquisitions; and more.