Samir Asaf

Executive Corporate Finance: The Business of Enhancing Shareholder Value

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Produktbeschreibung

This book will give you practical guidance on the latest concepts and applied models of the corporate financial world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson Education
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: Mai 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 190mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 754g
• ISBN-13: 9780273675495
• ISBN-10: 0273675494
• Artikelnr.: 21098987

Autorenporträt

Samir Asaf is currently Financial Director at AT&T Corp., USA, with more than a decade of international experience in corporate financial management and business operations. As a member of the Association of Financial Professionals, and the International Association of Business Leaders, he has an active interest in strategic corporate finance and business management.

Inhaltsangabe

1.
Optimizing the Corporate Finance Function
Introduction
The External Business Environment and Corporate Financial Strategy
The Strategic Logic of High Growth
2. Shareholder Value Maximization
Introduction
Corporate Valuation
Valuation Models: Public Company
Valuation Models: Closely held Company
Corporate Performance Measurement: Economic Value Added (EVA)
3. Financial Policy
Introduction
Capital Structure
Operating Leverage
Dividend Policy
Pricing Strategy
Tax Planning
Optimal Capital Budgeting with real Options
Mergers and Acquisitions
Asset-Liability Management: Optimizing the Balance Sheet
4. Risk Management
Introduction
Identifying and Estimating Risk Exposure
Off-Balance Sheet (OBS) Risks
Operational Risk Management
Enterprise Wide Risk Management (EWRM)
Risk Hedging Strategies
5. Financial Reporting, Planning and Control
Introduction
Financial Reporting: GAAP Convergence
Business and Financial Planning
Treasury Management
Financial Control and Audit
Optimize amid Changing Operating Conditions
6. Corporate Performance Management: The Balancing act?
Introduction
The Execution Problem
The Balanced Scorecard
Real-time Financial Systems: Corporate Performance Management (CPM)
Integrated Financial Management
Appendix: Applied Financial Optimization Modelling
Value Maximisation: Analytical Techniques
Company Size, Asset Utilization and Financial Leverage
Brief Synopsis of each Chapter:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Optimizing the Corporate Finance Function - an
integrated frameworkEach business is unique in terms of product, market,
size, industry, management, culture, and financial strength. Companies need
to tailor any generic model to its own unique needs and circumstances.
Corporate financial management includes shareholder value maximization,
risk management, financial planning, and performance assessment. Often
these functions are viewed independently. For example, risk management is
often performed by the treasury department on an ad hoc basis, and without
an integrated planning and optimisation framework. The corporate finance
function supports shareholder wealth creation by supporting corporate
growth objectives with a disciplined financial foundation that is
dynamically optimised with superior insights. The Modified Balanced
Scorecard provides such a framework, which integrates economic value
creation, enterprise-wide-risk management, and financial planning in an
applied model. We discuss quantitative methods for optimisation of the
corporate finance function, and assess qualitative aspects of real-world
corporate finance that supports optimal decision-making, from a senior
management perspective.
Chapter 2: Shareholder Value Maximization
Shareholder value is maximized when a company maximizes its growth
opportunities by making superior financing and investing decisions, while
optimally managing the operational risks of the business. In this chapter,
we discuss the major shareholder valuation methods, and analytical
techniques for value maximization. This includes minimization of earnings
and cash flow volatility. We focus on the economic valuation aspects or
EVA-type valuation techniques instead of accounting-based valuations, and
cover both publicly listed as well as privately held companies.
Chapter 3: Financial Policy
Corporations usually have some guidelines they use for financial
management, such as dividend payout amounts or payout ratios,
debt-to-equity ratios, accounts receivable-to-revenue ratios and