Strategic Financial Management Casebook

Strategic Financial Management Casebook strategically uses integrative case studies—cases that do not emphasize specific subjects such as capital budgeting or value based management—to provide a framework for understanding strategic financial management. By featuring holistic presentations, the book puts readers into the shoes of those responsible for the world’s largest wealth creators. It covers strategies of growth, mergers and acquisitions, financial performance analysis over the past decade, wealth created in terms of stock returns since its listing in stock market, investment and financial decisions, cost of capital, and corporate valuation.

In addition, the casebook also discusses corporate restructuring activities undertaken by each company. Each chapter follows a template to facilitate learning, and each features an Excel-based case analysis worksheet that includes a complete data set for financial analysis and valuation.

Introduces a conceptual framework for integrating strategy and finance for value creationEmphasizes the roles of corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, and risk management in value creationEncourages an analysis of investment, financing, and dividend decisions Examines non-financial factors that contribute to value

1. Perspectives on strategic finance

2. Wealth creation by Coca-Cola—a strategic perspective

3. Wealth creation by Johnson & Johnson

4. Wealth creation by Microsoft

5. Wealth creation by Exxon Mobil

6. Wealth creation—A case analysis of Apple

7. Wealth creation—analysis of Google

8. Wealth analysis of General Electric

9. Strategies of wealth creation by Berkshire Hathaway

10. Analysis of wealth—Walmart

11. Wealth analysis of Facebook

12. Wealth analysis of Procter and Gamble

13. Wealth analysis of Wells Fargo

14. Wealth creation by Amazon

15. Wealth analysis of AT&T

16. Wealth creation by Boeing

17. Analysis of wealth—Time Warner Inc.