Corporate Financial Strategy

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.