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Corporate Financial Strategies for Creating Shareholder Value

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Upcoming Sessions
  June 27 - July 2, 2010
$ 9,300
  October 17-22, 2010
$ 9,300
 
Key Benefits
During this course, you will:
Measure the impact of major strategic and operating decisions on shareholder value
Develop a capital structure that enhances shareholder value
More accurately estimate the cost of capital and its relation to financial structure
Value potential merger and acquisition targets more precisely
Understand how to determine the importance of financing strategies for value creation
Continuing Education Credit
This program is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy and is recommended for 48 CPE credits. (More information about CPE credits.)
   
"This program provided an excellent review of current and emerging methods of evaluating and improving shareholder wealth"

Director of Business Development, Praxair Corporation
Finance Professor Artur Raviv
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Finance Professor Artur Raviv
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Program Content

Creating Shareholder Value: Evaluation of Investments

  • Analytical techniques
  • Common mistakes made in the evaluation process
  • Financial reporting and resource allocation decisions
  • Modern approaches for the determination of cost of capital
  • Divisional cost of capital
  • Evaluating strategies using real options

Financing Decisions

  • Determinants of financial structure: is debt good for your firm?
  • Stock market reactions to changes in financial policy: the scientific evidence
  • Cash distribution
  • Impact of financing strategies on your firm’s cost of capital
  • Innovative financial instruments

Interaction of Investment and Financing

  • Design of consistent financial and investment strategies
  • Techniques for the evaluation of value created by investment and financing strategies

Corporate Financial Strategies

  • Valuation of merger and acquisition targets
  • Ownership restructuring: leveraged buyouts
  • Valuation of international investments
  • Value-based management (EVA, CFROI, SVA)
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