By following the same structure as the companion text, this book of exercises and solutions tests your knowledge of Strategic Financial Management. It also develops a number of theoretical concepts outlined in the companion text as a guide to further study.

All the exercises and their solutions are easy to follow. Each chapter begins with a theoretical review of the basic issues to be examined .We then move into the real world of sophisticated, financial analysis. Each chapter also contains commentaries and a summary that provide further insight into current theory and practice, applied to the corporate investment and financial policies of today’s uncertain world.

1. Part One: An Introduction
2. Finance – An Overview
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 1.1: Modern Finance Theory
   3. Exercise 1.2: The Nature and Scope of Financial Strategy
   4. Summary and Conclusions
3. Part Two: The Investment Decision
4. Capital Budgeting Under Conditions of Certainty
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 2.1: Liquidity, Profitability and Project PV
   3. Exercise 2.2: IRR Inadequacies and the Case for NPV
   4. Summary and Conclusions
5. Capital Budgeting and the Case for NPV
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 3.1: IRR and NPV Maximisation
   3. Exercise 3.2: Relevant Cash Flows, Taxation and Purchasing Power Risk
   4. Summary and Conclusions
6. The Treatment of Uncertainty
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 4.1: Mean-Variance Analyses
   3. Exercise 4.2: Decision Trees and Risk Analyses
   4. Summary and Conclusions
7. Part Three: The Finance Decision
8. Equity Valuation the Cost of Capital
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 5.1: Dividend Valuation and Capital Cost
   3. Exercise 5.2: Dividend Irrelevancy and Capital Cost
   4. Summary and Conclusions
9. Debt Valuation and the Cost of Capital
   1. Introduction
   2. Exercise 6.1: Tax-Deductibility of Debt and Issue Costs
   3. Exercise 6.2: Overall Cost (WACC) as a Cut-off Rate
   4. Summary and Conclusions
10. Debt Valuation and the Cost of Capital
    1. Introduction
    2. Exercise 7.1: Capital Structure, Shareholder Return and Leverage
    3. Exercise 7.2: Capital Structure and the Law of One Price
    4. Summary and Conclusions
11. Part Four: The Wealth Decision
12. Shareholder Wealth and Value Added
    1. Introduction
    2. Exercise 8.1: Shareholder Wealth, NPV Maximisation and Value Added
    3. Exercise 8.2: Current Issues and Future Developments
    4. Summary and Conclusions