This Essential Guide covers the key advanced elements of financial management including:

• The role and responsibilities of the senior financial management executive
• Theoretical and practical rationale for risk management
• Ethical and governance issues
• Management of international trade and finance
• Dividend policy and transfer pricing in multinationals
• Net present value
• DCF and risk
• Internal rate of return and modified internal rate of return
• Option pricing theory and investment decisions
• Sources and cost of finance
• Portfolio theory and the CAPM
• Financing of projects
• Valuation and free cash flows
• International investment and financing decisions
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Corporate reconstruction and reorganisation
• The treasury function
• Foreign exchange risk and currency risk management
• Interest rate risk. Hedging with FRAs and swaps
• Futures and hedging with futures
• Hedging with options