Corporate financial strategy / Ruth Bender

Content includes:

Part 1 Putting financial strategy into context
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

Part 2 Financial strategy and the corporate life cycle
7. Start-Up Businesses and Venture Capital
8. Growth Companies
9. Mature Companies
10. Declining Businesses: A Case for Euthanasia?

Part 3 Financial instruments
11. Financial Instruments: The Building Blocks
12. Types of Financial Instrument
13. Dividends and Buybacks

Part 4 Transactions and operating issues
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

Includes index.