Financial Management And Corporate Governance

This book provides an integrative perspective on financial management and corporate governance, analyzing wide-ranging issues and offering practical financial modeling techniques. It incorporates the latest developments in practice, such as direct listings, SPACs, contractual arrangements, corporate purpose, and ESG perspective, and looks at these complex issues through the dual lens of asymmetric information and conflicts of interest.

Format: Hardback
Length: 224 pages
Publication date: 08 July 2022
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd

This comprehensive book offers an insightful and holistic approach to financial management and corporate governance, providing a valuable framework for management decision-making. It delves into a wide range of critical issues, including valuation, capital investment, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and stakeholder value management, and corporate governance structure. Throughout the analyses, the book presents a coherent perspective on firms, laws, and markets, offering practical financial modeling techniques to aid in financial decision-making. Moreover, it incorporates the latest developments in practice, such as direct listings and SPACs in capital markets, contractual arrangements in mergers and acquisitions, setting of corporate purpose, protection of minority investors in related party transactions, balancing of shareholder and stakeholder value from an ESG perspective, and the growing influence of activist funds, index investors, and proxy advisors. By examining these complex issues within the context of asymmetric information and conflicts of interest faced by managers, the book provides coherence and clarity to the understanding of these key aspects of management.

This comprehensive book offers an insightful and holistic approach to financial management and corporate governance, providing a valuable framework for management decision-making. It delves into a wide range of critical issues, including valuation, capital investment, capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder and stakeholder value management, and corporate governance structure. Throughout the analyses, the book presents a coherent perspective on firms, laws, and markets, offering practical financial modeling techniques to aid in financial decision-making. Moreover, it incorporates the latest developments in practice, such as direct listings and SPACs in capital markets, contractual arrangements in mergers and acquisitions, setting of corporate purpose, protection of minority investors in related party transactions, balancing of shareholder and stakeholder value from an ESG perspective, and the growing influence of activist funds, index investors, and proxy advisors. By examining these complex issues within the context of asymmetric information and conflicts of interest faced by managers, the book provides coherence and clarity to the understanding of these key aspects of management.

ISBN-13: 9789811252396