Synopsis
This book discusses the concepts of financial management by using real-life corporate strategies to help understand the decision-making process of modern-day business enterprises.
Strategic financial management as a discipline has acquired 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 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.
Key Features
• Incorporation of real-life cases providing a critical view of the application of the theories discussed
• Extensive coverage of various forms of corporate expansion through financial restructuring as per the Indian regulatory framework
• Integration of mathematical problems and solutions for understanding the practical aspects of financial decision-making
• Robust companion website offering complementary chapters on Corporate Sickness, Strategic Corporate Restructuring and Benchmarking and additional case studies and solutions of unsolved problems
About the Authors
Nikhil Chandra Shil is working as an assistant professor of East West University, one of the top-ranked private universities in Bangladesh. He is also working as consultant academic affairs of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB), the only national institute of Bangladesh taking care of CMA profession. He holds BBA and MBA degrees with concentration in Accounting and Information Systems from the University of Dhaka, number one public university in Bangladesh. He is a Fellow Cost and Management Accountant (FCMA) of the ICMAB. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) UK and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He is also a Chartered Public Finance Accountant (CPFA) certified by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy UK, the only professional institute in the world taking care of public finance management. Mr Shil has long experience with university teaching in both graduate and undergraduate programmes. In his career, he has published as many as 70 research papers, mostly in international journals. He has also authored numerous texts, research monographs, working papers, conference papers, book chapters and edited books. His research area covers management accounting practices, management control, emerging issues in accounting, public finance management and behavioural research in accounting.
Bhagaban Das is dean of Business Studies and Commerce in Fakir Mohan University, Balasore, a state university established by the Government of Odisha. A national scholarship awardee throughout his career, Professor Das stood second in MCom Examination in Utkal University (1982). As a luminous teacher, he has more than three decades of teaching experience both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In addition to authoring 21 books, which are widely appreciated by readers, he has published more than 50 research papers both in national and international journals. Fifteen scholars have already been awarded PhD under his guidance, and 8 more are still working at present for the purpose. He is as an active member of the Indian Accounting Association, the Indian Commerce Association as well as the All Odisha Commerce Association. His current areas of interest include environmental accounting and financial literacy. Currently, he is the director of Distance and Continuing Education and a member of the syndicate.
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