STRATEGIC FINANCE - Achieving High Corporate Performance

Businesses today face increasing risk and complexity in making everyday decisions. Financial understanding is essential to executive action. But strategic insight is also a key element of managerial decision making. Strategic Finance identifies how enterprises can integrate financial and strategic understanding to produce high corporate performance.

This book will show you:
• What strategic finance decisions are
• How they can be implemented
• What they can achieve

Strategic Finance will enable you to understand:
• The new global business challenges enterprise now face
• The impact of digital technologies
• Cost analysis and profit target setting
• The financial implications of e-business
• How to reward the right type of employee effort
• The impact of shortening product life-cycles
• What to do in-house and what to outsource
• How cultural issues can affect financial strategies
• Customer information as a source of financial power
• Time barriers as financial constraints
• Strategic accounting issues

This book presents strategic and financial management fundamentals in a sharp and readily accessible manner. It is straightforward, practical and innovative. Entrepreneurs, executives and students reading this book will develop a unique approach to strategic and financial analysis that will equip them to better manage and deliver sustainable economic gains.