Finance and Financial Strategy for Creating Value

• Overview of investment analysis concepts and applications
• Value manager: Identifying and managing value drivers for investment decisions
• Financial analysis, forecasting, and evaluation of strategic investment alternatives
• Role of structured finance in raising capital and executing strategy
• Using M&A and corporate reorganizations as strategic finance tools
• Taxation, business strategy and investment decisions
• Valuation and financing of new enterprises and technology businesses

• Executives with a role in making decisions involving strategic corporate finance, including mergers and acquisitions, valuation, investment analysis (capital budgeting), divestments, and financial planning and forecasting.
• Consultants, accountants and other financial advisors who help evaluate and make recommendations on above types of strategic corporate finance decisions.
• Finance or non-finance executives with overall profit responsibilities for products or lines of businesses who need to make decisions involving investments, asset allocations, financing, and valuation.

• Learn to apply core investment analysis and valuation methodologies for evaluating investment alternatives to achieve the firm’s overall strategy
• Learn the role of traditional and new sources of financing alternatives for value creation and the role of financing in creating projects, joint ventures, and new ventures
• Learn the distinct valuation and financing issues associated with emerging businesses and technology businesses
• Measure the value of major operating and investing decisions on value of the firm
• Understand the role of mergers and acquisitions, divestment and corporate restructuring as strategic choices to achieve value maximizations
• Learn how structured finance techniques are used today to facilitate new sources of financing
• Understand the role of taxation in evaluating strategic finance decisions

The programme will use a mix of lecture, case analysis and class discussion, and will utilize hands-on group/team exercises. Real-world examples will be used throughout the programme to illustrate both concepts and current practices.

Professor Bala Dharan, Ph.D., CPA, is Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Professor and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Law School and Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management.  He is also a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group, an international business and litigation consulting firm. Professor Dharan has provided consulting and expert testimony on corporate finance, accounting and auditing, business valuation, and corporate governance issues. He has been invited three times to the United States Congress to testify on financial reporting issues, and has been a frequent invited speaker at various corporations and industry conferences.

Professor Dharan is an award-winning teacher and has designed and taught dozens of corporate executive education programmes at Wharton School, Rice University, Indian School of Business, and other institutions. Professor Dharan’s research centers on the strategic use of financial information by managers and investors. He is co-author of four textbooks. He has been a professor or visiting professor at leading global business schools, including MIT Sloan School of Management, University of California at Berkeley, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Indian School of Business, and Jones School of Management at Rice University.

Professor Dharan is a Certified Public Accountant with ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) credentials.  He has a B.Tech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in accounting from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.

Professor Padmini Srinivasan is a Ph.D from the National Law School of India University. She is a Fellow member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and a Member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. She also holds a Master’s degree in Commerce. Her areas of interests are Managerial Accounting, Corporate Disclosure Practices, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Income Tax.

Prior to joining IIMB, Dr. Srinivasan has worked in the Industry for more than ten years in various positions in Treasury, Planning, MIS and Accounting As part of the Executive education, she has designed and conducted programmes of short and long duration for a number of organizations including Finance for Non-finance managers.

Email: padmini@iimb.ernet.in

Programme Charges*

Residential: Rs. 47,000/-(subject to availability of rooms on campus)

Non-residential: Rs. 42,000/-

Early bird cut-off date: 1-Jun-2015

Residential: Rs. 44,650/-

Non-residential: Rs. 39,900/-

Please Note * Please add service tax at prevailing rates to the programme fee. Group discount (10%) may be availed for a group of 5 or more participants from an organization for a programme, on upfront payment before the start of the programme.

All enrolments are subject to review and approval by the programme director. Joining Instructions will be shared with the organization if sponsored or to the participants on selection. Kindly do not make your travel plans unless you receive the letter from IIMB.

A certificate of participation will be awarded to the participants by IIMB.

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