Corporate Finance Concepts: Third Edition

If you are interested in topics, such as:

• How to analyze firms in less than 5 minutes
• Why mergers so frequently fail
• How to value firms accurately and effectively
• How to structure and manage IPOs
• How to assess a financial institution s stability
• What credit ratings are for and how they are implemented
• What distinguishes high-yield bonds from leveraged loans
• Why share buy-backs are (really) implemented
• How funding / capital structures can be optimized
• How hedge funds aim to make money
• How distressed firms can be restructured
• How ESG will change the world of finance

Focused on significance in daily practice, CORPORATE FINANCE CONCEPTS is foremost designed for corporate executives, directors, board members, entrepreneurs, as well as students in graduate and post-graduate courses.

Target audience includes those who are less familiar with the discipline and wish to know more; but also those looking to refresh their understanding to apply ideas and tools in their daily interactions with clients, financial institutions, or the capital markets.

The themes presented in this third, revised, and expanded edition have been carefully selected based on decades of advisory work with corporate clients and involvement in executive and post-graduate programs.

Each concept, spanning from fundamental issues like 'What is Risk?' to considerations of optimal capital structures across a company's life cycle, is designed to offer the reader a concise and practical overview.

Focus is on core ideas, mechanics and tools, with charts and figures deliberately used in lieu of complex calculations or exercises: As, for an executive, in daily practice and decision making, it is often far more relevant to grasp the essence of a concept, whereupon to be in a position to ask the appropriate, insightful and clever questions ...

CORPORATE FINANCE CONCEPTS - MAIN SECTIONS

• What is Corporate Finance?
• Risk in Finance
• Risk and Return
• Corporate Financial Analysis
• Cost of Capital
• Valuation Methods
• Dividends and Buybacks
• Corporate Life Cycle
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Corporate Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• Financial Derivatives
• Securitization
• Bank Analysis
• ESG / Sustainable Finance

For almost four decades, Christian Schopper (www.christianschopper.com) has been actively involved in global banking and finance, specializing in emerging markets. Additionally, he has served as a member of various visiting faculties for banking, finance, and capital markets. In this role, he has conducted numerous courses and workshops in post-graduate and executive education programs at universities and management institutions across Europe and the CIS.
Christian Schopper earned Doctorates in Laws and Economics from the University of Vienna and holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne.