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CORPORATE FINANCE CONCEPTS - WHY THIS BOOK?

Many see in Corporate Finance a complex web of theoretical concepts difficult to grasp or comprehend. - In fact, though, the discipline merely combines some basic thoughts, with most of them not even hard to understand.

This book is meant to provide an overview of some of the most relevant concepts commonly referred to as Corporate Finance, whereby focus is on their significance in business as well as in daily practice.

You want to know, among others:

• How to analyze a company in 5 minutes?
• How an IPO works?
• What the main challenges in valuing a firm are?
• How to assess the perfomance of a financial institution?
• How a credit rating process works?
• How to differentiate a high-yield bond from a leveraged loan?
• Why share buy-backs are actually made?
• How a firm's capital structure changes over its life time?
• How a hedge fund works?
• What alternatives exist in restructuring a firm in distress?

... then this book is for you

Hence, CORPORATE FINANCE CONCEPTS is for those who are less familiar with the discipline and its tools, now wanting to know more. And it is for those who would like to refresh, get a deeper understanding of the ideas behind, and apply them in their work with clients, financial institutions or the capital markets.

The concepts were selected on the basis of decades-long advisory work with corporate clients as well as numerous engagements in executive and post-graduate programs. As focus is on applying Corporate Finance tools in practice, the book's target audience are corporate executives, directors and board members as well as entrepreneurs, students in graduate and post-graduate courses, but also anyone else seeking an introduction to finance, banking and the capital markets.

Each concept - ranging from the simple question of "What is Risk?" to reflections on optimal capital structures over the life cycle of a company - is meant to give the reader a crisp and practice-relevant overview. Whereby emphasis is on the core ideas, with charts and figures intentionally replacing calculations or exercises: As, for an executive, it is often more relevant to grasp a concept's essence, whereupon being in a position to ask the right questions ...

CORPORATE FINANCE CONCEPTS - CONTENT

• What is Corporate Finance?
• Risk in Finance
• Risk and Return
• Corporate Financial Analysis
• Cost of Capital
• Valuation Methods
• Dividends and Buybacks
• Corporate Life Cycle
• Corporate Restructuring
• Capital Markets
• Securitization
• Bank Analysis

THE AUTHOR

For more than three decades, Christian Schopper (www.christianschopper.com) has been engaged in global banking and finance, foremost with a focus on emerging markets. Besides, he has been member of various visiting faculties for banking, finance and capital markets. In this capacity, he has run courses and workshops in post-graduate and executive education programs at several universities and institutions across Russia and the European Union.

Christian Schopper holds a Doctorate in Laws and a Doctorate in Economics both, from the University of Vienna, and an MBA from IMD, Lausanne.