Strategic Financial Management: Part I

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PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION

1. Finance – An Overview
1.1 Financial Objectives and Shareholder Wealth
1.2 Wealth Creation and Value Added
1.3 The Investment and Finance Decision
1.4 Decision Structures and Corporate Governance
1.5 The Developing Finance Function
1.6 The Principles of Investment
1.7 Perfect Markets and the Separation Theorem
1.8 Summary and Conclusions
1.9 Selected References

PART TWO: THE INVESTMENT DECISION

2. Capital Budgeting Under Conditions of Certainty
2.1 The Role of Capital Budgeting
2.2 Liquidity, Profitability and Present Value
2.3 The Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
2.4 The Inadequacies of IRR and the Case for NPV
2.5 Summary and Conclusions

3. Capital Budgeting and the Case for NPV
3.1 Ranking and Acceptance Under IRR and NPV
3.2 The Incremental IRR
3.3 Capital Rationing, Project Divisibility and NPV
3.4 Relevant Cash Flows and Working Capital
3.5 Capital Budgeting and Taxation
3.6 NPV and Purchasing Power Risk
3.7 Summary and Conclusions

4. The Treatment of Uncertainty
4.1 Dysfunctional Risk Methodologies
4.2 Decision Trees, Sensitivity and Computers
4.3 Mean-Variance Methodology
4.4 Mean-Variance Analyses
4.5 The Mean-Variance Paradox
4.5 Certainty Equivalence and Investor Utility
4.6 Summary and Conclusions
4.7 Reference

With an eclectic record of University teaching, research, publication, consultancy and curricula development, underpinned by running a successful business, Alan has been a member of national academic validation bodies and held senior external examinerships and lectureships at both undergraduate and postgraduate level in the UK and abroad.

With increasing demand for global e-learning, his attention is now focussed on the free provision of a financial textbook series, underpinned by a critique of contemporary capital market theory in volatile markets, published by bookboon.com.

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