Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool
An important new resource for managers in marketing, finance, acquisitions analysis, and strategic planning, this book explores a question central to the financial health of every company: Is there a rate of corporate growth that is both desirable and sustainable? As the authors point out, excessive growth in sales can be as destructive to the survival of a firm as no growth. Here they present analytical models and tools that enable corporate planners to evaluate their own growth needs, target realistic expectations, and assess the collateral risks of growing either too fast or too slow.

Focusing throughout on the concept of managed growth, the authors begin with a theoretical micro/macroeconomic analysis and proceed to a practical, applied presentation of growth theory in management decision making. They present models useful for both short- and long-term management, all of them illustrated with concrete data taken from corporate annual reports and SEC 10K reports. By employing these models, planners will be able to accurately forecast optimal and feasible growth rates, evaluate the impact of price fluctuations on the sustainable growth rate, isolate the effects of productivity trends, plan working capital requirements, determine the most favorable capital structure of the firm, and measure the impact of potential mergers or takeovers on sustainable growth. Each of the models can easily be programmed for computer usage. The authors also pay considerable attention to remedial actions that can be taken when the actual growth rate either exceeds or falls short of the sustainable growth rate, making this an especially practical tool for anyone charged with financial, sales, and strategic planning responsibilities.

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Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool
An important new resource for managers in marketing, finance, acquisitions analysis, and strategic planning, this book explores a question central to the financial health of every company: Is there a rate of corporate growth that is both desirable and sustainable? As the authors point out, excessive growth in sales can be as destructive to the survival of a firm as no growth. Here they present analytical models and tools that enable corporate planners to evaluate their own growth needs, target realistic expectations, and assess the collateral risks of growing either too fast or too slow.

Focusing throughout on the concept of managed growth, the authors begin with a theoretical micro/macroeconomic analysis and proceed to a practical, applied presentation of growth theory in management decision making. They present models useful for both short- and long-term management, all of them illustrated with concrete data taken from corporate annual reports and SEC 10K reports. By employing these models, planners will be able to accurately forecast optimal and feasible growth rates, evaluate the impact of price fluctuations on the sustainable growth rate, isolate the effects of productivity trends, plan working capital requirements, determine the most favorable capital structure of the firm, and measure the impact of potential mergers or takeovers on sustainable growth. Each of the models can easily be programmed for computer usage. The authors also pay considerable attention to remedial actions that can be taken when the actual growth rate either exceeds or falls short of the sustainable growth rate, making this an especially practical tool for anyone charged with financial, sales, and strategic planning responsibilities.

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Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool

Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool

Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool

Sustainable Corporate Growth: A Model and Management Planning Tool

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Overview

An important new resource for managers in marketing, finance, acquisitions analysis, and strategic planning, this book explores a question central to the financial health of every company: Is there a rate of corporate growth that is both desirable and sustainable? As the authors point out, excessive growth in sales can be as destructive to the survival of a firm as no growth. Here they present analytical models and tools that enable corporate planners to evaluate their own growth needs, target realistic expectations, and assess the collateral risks of growing either too fast or too slow.

Focusing throughout on the concept of managed growth, the authors begin with a theoretical micro/macroeconomic analysis and proceed to a practical, applied presentation of growth theory in management decision making. They present models useful for both short- and long-term management, all of them illustrated with concrete data taken from corporate annual reports and SEC 10K reports. By employing these models, planners will be able to accurately forecast optimal and feasible growth rates, evaluate the impact of price fluctuations on the sustainable growth rate, isolate the effects of productivity trends, plan working capital requirements, determine the most favorable capital structure of the firm, and measure the impact of potential mergers or takeovers on sustainable growth. Each of the models can easily be programmed for computer usage. The authors also pay considerable attention to remedial actions that can be taken when the actual growth rate either exceeds or falls short of the sustainable growth rate, making this an especially practical tool for anyone charged with financial, sales, and strategic planning responsibilities.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780899302386
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 03/07/1989
Pages: 322
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

JOHN J. CLARK is Royal H. Gibson, Sr., Professor of Finance and Director of Graduate Studies at Drexel University. His eight previous books include Business Merger and Acquisition Strategies, Statistics for Managers, and The Lease-Buy Decision.

THOMAS C. CHIANG is Associate Professor of Finance at Drexel University. His numerous articles in finance, business, and economics have appeared in such publications as Jourbanal of Money, Credit, and Banking, Quarterly Review of Economics and Business, Financial Review, and Jourbanal of Financial Research.

GERARD T. OLSON is Assistant Professor of Finance at Villanova University. He has consulted with many firms about the effective management of their growth.

Table of Contents

Conceptual Basis of Firm Growth Analysis
Macroeconomics and Sustainable Growth
Firm Sustainable Growth
Sustainable Growth: Firm Aggregate Models
Other Firm Aggregate Models and Cash Flow Analysis
Disaggregated Model of Sustainable Growth
Firm Optimal Sustainable Growth
Application of Growth Theory to Management Decision Making
Forecasting Sustainable Growth Rates
Sustainable Growth and Working Capital Management
Sustainable Growth and Capital Budgeting
Mergers: Terms of Combination and Sustainable Growth
Sustainable Growth and Firm Valuation
Bibliography
Index

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