Financial Strategies For Corporate Executives

A handbook to help corporate executives with their personal finances.

Corporate Financial Strategy is 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. The book sets out appropriate financial strategies over the key milestones in a company's life. It discusses the practicalities behind transactions such as: * Raising venture capital * Flotation on a stock exchange * Making acquisitions * Management buyouts * Financial restructuring In explaining financing structures, the book sets out the basic building blocks of any financial instrument to enable the reader to appreciate innovations in the field. It also illustrates how and why different types of security might be used. The second edition of this very popular textbook brings to bear the considerable commercial and academic experience of its co-authors. Throughout, the book offers a range of up-to-date case studies, abundant diagrams and figures, and frequent 'Working Insight' sections to provide practical illumination of the theory. This book will enable you to understand the potential value added by the best financial strategy, while fully demonstrating the working role of financial strategy within an overall corporate strategy. An excellent practical guide for senior financial managers, strategic-decision makers and qualified accountants, the text is also invaluable as a clear-sighted and thorough companion for students and senior executives on finance courses (including MBA, MSc and DMS).

A buzzword on Wall Street, everyone is interested in increasing "shareholder value." Corporate executives, CEOs, board members, and managers all talk of ways to maximize shareholder value, while growing their businesses. In Corporate Financial Strategy and Decision Making, Harold Bierman discusses all the financial strategies managers should follow to increase shareholder value. He covers corporate financial planning, financial strategies, alternative sources of funds, and other financial angles for managers of all levels. This comprehensive guide also includes in-depth explanations of dividend policy-making, mergers & acquisitions, capital structure, and risk management.

In between the barrage of emails, texts, business travel, conference calls, weekends, vacations, kids' soccer games, how do you find the time to build wealth and pay attention to your money? In our decades of experience in working with corporate executives, you probably aren't giving your finances the care it needs and deserves. Be as intentional building your wealth as you are building your career. Take this simple quiz: - Am I taking full advantage of my company compensation plans to ensure I can retire, send my kids to college, buy that vacation home? - Is my 401(k) plan invested the right way? - How much of my overall investments should be in company stock? - When is the best time to exercise my stock options or sell my restricted stock? - Am I paying more in tax than I need to? - What should I do if I lose my job? - Should tragedy strike, will my family be secure without my income? If you can't answer these questions with confidence, you need to read this book. It's an investment of time with rewards for your family's financial future.

Finance for Strategic Decision Making demystifies andclarifies for non-financial executives the basics of financialanalysis. It shows how they can make important financial decisionsthat can critically enhance their institution’s ability torespond to competitive challenges, undertake new projects, overcomefinancial setbacks, and most importantly, create shareholder value.Written by M. P. Narayanan and Vikram K. Nanda—two of thecountry’s leading authorities on financialstrategy—this book offers a practical guide for usingfinancial analysis to enhance strategicdecision making. The bookincludes a coherent framework that outlines practical andintellectually sound guidance for executives who must makestrategic decisions. Finance for Strategic Decision Making Explains the role of finance in corporate strategy Offers guidance on resource allocation decisions Explores how to determine the right balance of debt and equitycapital to maximize firm value Demonstrates how to use payout policy as a strategic tool Clarifies if a merger, acquisition, or divestiture is in thebest interest of an organization Shows how to manage risk Reveals how to measure value created and the effectiveness ofupper level management

The field of Corporate Finance has developed into a fairly complex one from its origins focussed on a company's business and financial needs (financing, risk management, capitalization and budgeting). Corporate Financial Strategy provides a critical introduction to the field and in doing so shows how organizations' financial strategies can be aligned with their overall business strategies. 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.

In the book, you will find proven strategies to secure your financial future while surviving the cyclical environment of Corporate America. “It’s critical that Executives in Corporate America not only have an entry strategy, and performance strategy... but most importantly Executives need an exit strategy.” ---K. Thomas Hutt, CFP®, CPA, MBA This book provides simple strategies on how to: • Accumulate Corporate Wealth Assets • Develop Corporate Career Assets • Manage Personal Finances • Evaluate Early Buyout Offers • Transfer Tax Deferred Assets Each chapter is a quick-action reference guide for implementing basic financial strategies to secure your financial future. K. Thomas Hutt is a certified financial planner and certified public accountant with over thirty years of experience in the financial-services industry. His financial advice has been featured numerous times on local television stations and in newspapers, as well as Money magazine, Black Enterprise magazine, Heart & Soul magazine, PBS’s Moneywise TV and TV One News. He is also the author of FINANCIAL CPR: 10 SIMPLE STEPS TO HEAL YOUR FINANCIAL FUTURE.

Proven leadership strategies that will impact your career and your company Having the right CFO is a critical component for every company's success. Guide to CFO Success provides CFOs and those in the making with a strategic blueprint to benefit their companies and their careers. This book reveals how to build a strong, successful career plan with guidance on team building and management of the multiple relationships that CFOs face on a daily basis, plus how to balance one's work and personal life. Offers strategic guidance for leadership growth for CFOs Presents essential information for every CFO who wants to play a tactical role in their organization Includes best practices for building and developing the most effective Finance Team Features practical career advice for future Chief Financial Officers From balancing one's work and personal life to dealing with the CEO, Guide to CFO Success has the answers you need to plan for a strong and successful career.