Corporate financial strategy : setting the context -- What does the share price tell us? -- Executive summary : linking corporate and financial strategies -- Linking corporate and financial strategies -- Financial strategies over the lifecycle -- Corporate governance and financial strategy -- Start-up businesses and venture capital -- Growth companies -- Mature companies -- Declining businesses : a case for euthanasia? -- Financial instruments : the building blocks -- Types of financial instrument -- Dividends and buybacks -- Valuations and forecasting -- Floating a company -- Acquisitions and selling a business -- Restructuring a company -- Private equity -- International corporate finance -- Strategic working capital management.