Best-practices in corporate finance for managers, investors, strategists and senior finance professionals

Corporate Finance + Strategy = Value How to align finance with strategy to create genuine shareholder value Whatever your reason for valuing a company, whether it be for mergers and acquisitions, selling, restructuring,creating or increasing shareholder value, you know how vital it is to get an accurate valuation. What many people fail to anticipate is the complexity involved in the process, and, as a result, they can find themselves making the wrong decisions or simply over-paying. This intensive five-day course will provide you with a clear assessment of the issues that are critical to the financing of companies and how these issues can be addressed to the benefit of the company and its stakeholders. This workshop will require your hands on participation, as you will take part in exercises,discussions as well as real-life and simulated business situations to illustrate the various teaching points.

Here’s what you’ll learn: • Demystify all the key terms and quantitative tools in corporate finance • Master the techniques for evaluating projects and investments to separate those that create shareholder value from those that destroy it • Discover why accounting-based valuation techniques can fail, and how to apply your models to the real world • Understand the key measures of corporate performance and the importance of value creation to the prosperity of a company • Determine a company’s cost of equity, cost of debt and weighted average cost of capital (WACC) • Design financial models for use in corporate finance