| Title : | Business finance : A value based approach | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Bill Neale, Author ; Trefor McElroy, Author | | Publisher: | Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall | | Publication Date: | 2004 | | Pagination: | xxi, 484 p. | | Layout: | ill. (b & w) | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-201-61904-1 | | General note: | Offers introduction to financial decision-making, covering key areas of financial management ranging from objectives through to investment, financing and dividend policy. This book examines business finance from a managerial angle. It analyses strategies and how practice compares with theory. | | Class number: | 658.15 | | Abstract: | The emphasis is on "managing for value" which reflects a growing concern in the focus of modern business management. The book examines business finance from a managerial angle, integrating strategy in a way that has not been achieved yet in most other core finance texts. The material will be relevant to all types of business organisations, and examples are taken from Europe and around the world. Using up-to-date, topical case material, based upon real-life companies familiar to many students, the text analyses value-adding strategies and how practice compares with theory. | | Contents note: | Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; Case Study: Cadbury-Schweppes plc; Chapter 2 The Meaning of Shareholder Value; Chapter 3 Strategic Management for Value Creation; Case Study: The Quaker Story; Chapter 4 Project Appraisal - I: The Basics; Chapter 5 Project Apraisal II: The Tricky Bits; Case Study: Virgin's West Coast Railway Project; Chapter 6 The Rate of Return Required by Owners; Chapter 7 Working capital management; Case Study: Sodexho plc; Chapter 8 Raising Long Term Finance; Chapter 9 The Required Return on Investment; Chapter 10 How to Value Companies; Case Stusy: Easyjet plc; Chapter 11 Returning Value to Owners; Chapter 12 Managing Risk; Chapter 13 Measuring Performance; Case Study: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
Business finance : A value based approach [printed text] / Bill Neale, Author ; Trefor McElroy, Author . - Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2004 . - xxi, 484 p. : ill. (b & w) ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-201-61904-1 Offers introduction to financial decision-making, covering key areas of financial management ranging from objectives through to investment, financing and dividend policy. This book examines business finance from a managerial angle. It analyses strategies and how practice compares with theory. | Class number: | 658.15 | | Abstract: | The emphasis is on "managing for value" which reflects a growing concern in the focus of modern business management. The book examines business finance from a managerial angle, integrating strategy in a way that has not been achieved yet in most other core finance texts. The material will be relevant to all types of business organisations, and examples are taken from Europe and around the world. Using up-to-date, topical case material, based upon real-life companies familiar to many students, the text analyses value-adding strategies and how practice compares with theory. | | Contents note: | Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; Case Study: Cadbury-Schweppes plc; Chapter 2 The Meaning of Shareholder Value; Chapter 3 Strategic Management for Value Creation; Case Study: The Quaker Story; Chapter 4 Project Appraisal - I: The Basics; Chapter 5 Project Apraisal II: The Tricky Bits; Case Study: Virgin's West Coast Railway Project; Chapter 6 The Rate of Return Required by Owners; Chapter 7 Working capital management; Case Study: Sodexho plc; Chapter 8 Raising Long Term Finance; Chapter 9 The Required Return on Investment; Chapter 10 How to Value Companies; Case Stusy: Easyjet plc; Chapter 11 Returning Value to Owners; Chapter 12 Managing Risk; Chapter 13 Measuring Performance; Case Study: KLM Royal Dutch Airlines |
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