Corporate Financial Strategy (Original)

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.

Ruth Bender is Reader in Corporate Financial Strategy at Cranfield University, UK. Prior to becoming an academic she was a corporate finance partner with one of the UK's larger accounting firms and has also worked as a venture capital manager in the city

PART I: PUTTING FINANCIAL STRATEGY INTO CONTEXT
Ch 1 Corporate financial strategy: setting the context
Ch 2 What does the share price tell us?
Ch 3 Executive summary: linking corporate and financial strategies
Ch 4 Linking corporate and financial strategies
Ch 5 Financial strategies over the life cycle
Ch 6 Corporate governance and financial strategy

PART II: FINANCIAL STRATEGY AND THE CORPORATE LIFE CYCLE
Ch 7 Start-up businesses and venture capital
Ch 8 Growth companies
Ch 9 Mature companies
Ch10 Declining businesses: a case for euthanasia?

PART III: FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
Ch11 Financial instruments: the building blocks
Ch12 Types of financial instrument
Ch13 Dividends and buy-backs

PART IV: TRANSACTIONS AND OPERATING ISSUES
Ch14 Valuations and forecasting
Ch15 Floating a Company
Ch16 Acquisitions and selling a business
Ch17 Restructuring a company
Ch18 Private equity
Ch19 International corporate finance
Ch20 Strategic working capital management