Corporate Finance and Strategy

A fast paced interactive course, using contemporary case studies, realistic valuation exercises, and interactive learning.

The course is designed to provide an applied and practical approach to finance, enabling you to address topical issues that modern corporations face. It will enhance your understanding of Corporate Finance as a tool for making strategic decisions.

Programme benefits:

• Improve your understanding of the interactions between financial and strategic decisions
• Develop skills in working with modern valuation tools and learn how to apply them to the valuation of projects and companies
• Understand how modern theoretical developments in finance and strategy are applied in real-world situations, by means of hands-on applications using real financial data
• Interact with a diverse set of professionals, and work in teams to sharpen your problem-solving skills.

 

 

Course description

You will learn how to apply basic capital structure and valuation techniques to the analysis of strategic decisions, such as mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations, and raising capital. The course will then take you beyond the analysis of capital structure and valuation techniques, by focusing on interactions between financial and strategic decisions in corporations.

This course will address the following key topics:

• Financial markets and project valuation
• Corporate and competitive strategy; mergers & acquisitions
• Financial distress and the interactions between financing and investment decisions; leveraged buyouts
• Strategy for new businesses; going public and private

Prerequisites

Introductory economics and introductory finance.  Students must be familiar with finance topics such as discounted cash-flow analysis, WACC, CAPM, and  Miller-Modigliani theorems; advanced knowledge of corporate finance is not required.

Course suitability           

This executive course is suitable for:

Executives, managers and other professionals without a substantial academic finance background, who wish to study corporate finance as a tool for making strategic decisions.

What's included in the fee?

The fee for this executive course includes: all LSE tuition, course materials, daily lunches, coffee breaks, two complimentary networking events with fellow senior participants and full office support. You will also be awarded an LSE certificate of completion at the end of the five days.