Financing Transitions: Managing Capital and Liquidity in the Family Business

by Franïois M. de Visscher, Craig Aronoff, John L. Ward

Overview

This book establishes the principles and patterns necessary to laying the foundation for capital and liquidity planning. Through an in-depth examination of financial situations, it leads family businesses to making wise, well-timed choices about the future of the business and the family.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230111059
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/11/2011
Series:	A Family Business Publication
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2011
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

FRANÇOIS M. de VISSCHER President of de Visscher & Co., Founder of Family Capital Growth Partners, co-founder of the Business Growth Alliance and a director and shareholder of his own family's global enterprise, N.V. Bekaert S.A.

CRAIG E. ARONOFF Co-founder, Principal, and Chairman of the Board of The Family Business Consulting Group, Inc., the founder of the Cox Family Enterprise Center and current Professor Emeritus at Kennesaw State University, USA. He invented and implemented the membership-based, professional-service-provider sponsored Family Business Forum, which has served as a model of family business education for universities world-wide.

JOHN L. WARD Co-founder of the Family Business Consulting Group Inc. He is Clinical Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, USA, and teaches strategic management, business leadership and family enterprise continuity.

Table of Contents

Balancing Liquidity, Growth and Control Managing Patient Capital and Shareholder Liquidity Managing the Cost of Patient Capital The Role of Family Governance in Family Effect Keeping, Selling, or Expanding the Family Business Internal Financial Solutions: Meeting Shareholders' Immediate, Current, and Ongoing Liquidity Needs External Financial Solutions: Matching the Right Form of Capital to the Right Strategy Private Equity as a Growing Source of Capital Summary Index The Authors

Editorial Reviews

'While each volume contains helpful 'solutions' to the issues it covers, it is the guidance on how to tackle the process of addressing the different issues and the emphasis on the benefits which can stem from the process itself which make the Family Business Leadership Series of unique value to everyone involved in a family business - not just the owners.' - David Grant, Director (retired), William Grant & Sons Ltd. (Distillers of fine Scotch)

'These books deserve a place in every business-owning family's library' - Léon Danco, Cleveland, OH

'I think the Family Business Leadership Series books are excellent. They are extremely concise and practical, and they have the information you need.' - Gigi Cohen, EVP, Magid Glove & Safety Mfg. Co., LLC, Chicago, IL

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