Strategic financial management as a discipline has acquired a critical significance because of continuing globalization and resulting cross-border flow of capital. Financial Management: A Strategic Perspective stresses upon the importance of applying knowledge and techniques of financial management to the planning, operating and monitoring of financial functions within the context of the strategic choices and issues that have an impact on an organization’s long-term success.

Divided into four major sections, this book enables the students to explore a wide range of concepts and issues related to an organization’s strategic objectives and the internal and external analysis of those objectives.

Contents: Preface. Part I: Introduction: 1. Introduction. 2. Strategic cost management. 3. Value-based management. Part II. Financial Management: 4. Capital budgeting and investment decisions. 5. Risk in capital budgeting. 6. Capital structure. 7. Dividend policy. Part III. Corporate Restructuring: 8. Corporate restructuring: an overview. 9. Takeover. 10. Demerger.11. Joint venture. 12. Strategic alliance. 13. Leveraged buyout. 14. Employee stock ownership plans. Part IV: Strategic Finance: 15. Financial engineering.16. Option pricing. Swap. Forward and futures. Stock market index.Time value tables. Index.