Book description
Essential guidance for the corporate finance professional — advisor, Board Director, CFO, Treasurer, business development executive, or M&A expert—to ask the right questions and make the critical decisions. Strategic Corporate Finance is a practical guide to the key issues, their context, and their solutions. From performance measurement and capital planning to risk management and capital structure, Strategic Corporate Finance, translates principles of corporate finance theory into practical methods for implementing them. Filled with in-depth insights, expert advice, and detailed case studies, Strategic Corporate Finance will prepare you for the issues involved in raising, allocating and managing capital, and its associated risks.
Justin Pettit (New York, NY) draws on his 15 years of senior advisory experience as an investment banker and management consultant. He advises corporate boards and executives on matters of capital structure, financial policy, valuation, and strategy. He also lectures on topics in advanced corporate finance to graduate and undergraduate students at universities in the New York area.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Part One: Managing the Left-Hand Side of the Balance Sheet
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Part Two: Managing the Right-Hand Side of the Balance Sheet
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Chapter 6: An Executive’s Guide to Credit Ratings
- Trends and Implications
- Empirical Evidence
- Limitations of Quantitative Credit Analysis
- What Metrics Matter Most?
- Case Study: Treatment of Pension and Postretirement Liabilities
- Multivariate Credit Models
- Industry Considerations
- Case Study: Property and Casualty Insurance
- Application Issues
- How to Manage Your Agencies
- Case Study: Illustration of Secured and Unsecured Notching
- Chapter 7: Today’s Optimal Capital Structure
- Chapter 8: Dividends and Buybacks: Calibrating Your Shareholder Distributions
- Chapter 9: The Stock Liquidity Handbook
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Chapter 6: An Executive’s Guide to Credit Ratings
- Part Three: Managing the Enterprise
- References
- Index
Product information
- Title: Strategic Corporate Finance: Applications in Valuation and Capital Structure
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2007
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9780470052648
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