Table of Contents
Reader entry
| § | Publication unit | Use |
|---|---|---|
| — | Corporate Finance Readme | Follow connected financial decisions and a direct value calculation. |
| — | Preface | Understand the language and how its methods connect. |
| — | References | Find supplying editions, source guidance and citation information. |
Part A - Cash and decision accounts
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FIN.1 - Frame the Corporate Finance Decision, Corporation, Jurisdiction, and Time | Stable | financial question; corporation; jurisdiction; horizon | FDM and C.11.DUA when needed |
| 2 | FIN.2 - Assess Liquidity and Funding Needs by Date | Stable | cash gap; liquidity; cash forecast; drawable facility | FIN.4; FDM when needed |
| 3 | FIN.3 - Manage Working Capital and Cash Conversion | Stable | working capital; inventory; customer advance; cash conversion | FIN.2; MA and OPS when needed |
| 4 | FIN.4 - Prepare Accounts and Forecasts for the Finance Decision | Stable | profit to cash; finance projection; pro forma; forecast | MA and FDM when needed |
Part B - Investment and value
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | FIN.5 - Estimate Cost of Capital and Financing Constraints | Stable | discount rate; WACC; equity return; financing constraints | FIN.4; FIN.10 when needed |
| 6 | FIN.6 - Value Capital Projects | Stable | capital project; NPV; opportunity cost; payback | FIN.4–5; FIN.7 for continuing value; FIN.8 when needed |
| 7 | FIN.7 - Value Assets and the Corporation | Stable | enterprise value; equity value; DCF; comparables | FIN.4–5; FIN.8 when needed |
| 8 | FIN.8 - Value Financial and Real Options | Stable | real option; defer; expand; abandon; binomial | FIN.5; FDM when needed |
| 9 | FIN.9 - Compare Capital Investments and Allocations | Stable | capital rationing; acquisition; divestment; synergy; price | FIN.6–8; FIN.10–12 and FIN.21 when needed |
Part C - Financing, distributions and recovery
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | FIN.10 - Design Financing Instruments and Terms | Stable | loan; issue fee; maturity; financing terms | FIN.2; FDM when needed |
| 11 | FIN.11 - Select Capital Structure | Stable | debt equity mix; debt capacity; capital structure | FIN.5; FIN.10–12 when needed |
| 12 | FIN.12 - Preserve Covenant Headroom and Financing Flexibility | Stable | covenant; headroom; waiver; refinancing | FIN.2; FIN.10 when needed |
| 13 | FIN.21 - Decide How Much Capital to Retain or Return | Stable | dividend; buyback; retain capital; payout | FIN.2; FIN.7, FIN.9 and FIN.11–12 when needed |
| 14 | FIN.22 - Compare Financial Restructuring and Recovery Routes | Stable | financial distress; restructuring; recovery; interim finance | FIN.2; FIN.7 and FIN.10–12 when needed |
Part D - Exposure and treasury action
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | FIN.13 - Identify and Measure Financial Exposures | Stable | currency; rates; credit; counterparty; financial exposure | FIN.4; FDM when needed |
| 16 | FIN.14 - Decide Whether and How to Hedge or Transfer Financial Risk | Stable | hedge; forward; swap; partial receipt; residual risk | FIN.13; FIN.2 and FIN.8 when needed |
| 17 | FIN.15 - Execute Treasury and Liquidity Decisions | Stable | treasury execution; payment; short-term investment; settlement | Selected financial decision; FDM when needed |
Part E - Advice, renewal and continuing practice
| § | ID & Title | Status | Keywords & Search Queries | Dependencies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | FIN.16 - Prepare a Finance Recommendation and Return It for a Decision | Stable | recommendation; conditional advice; evidence demand | Selected FIN results; C.11.DUA when needed |
| 19 | FIN.17 - Refresh Financial Models and Data | Stable | model refresh; changed data; revised forecast | The affected FIN result |
| 20 | FIN.18 - Choose Whether and How to Change Corporate-Finance Methods | Stable | method choice; forecast comparison; trial; model improvement | The direct financial method; C.11.DUA when needed |
| 21 | FIN.19 - Reconcile Simultaneous Corporate-Finance Work Across Claims and Horizons | Stable | concurrent finance work; shared cash; multiple horizons | C.32.MWA; direct FIN methods when needed |
| 22 | FIN.20 - Deliberately Continue and Change Corporate-Finance Culture | Stable | finance culture; forecast use; practice retention | C.36; MA.9 and C.11.DUA when needed |