To start a successful business, you need a comprehensive toolbox full of
effective financial and business techniques at your fingertips.
Entrepreneurial Finance provides the essential tools and know-how you need
to build a sturdy foundation for a profitable business.
This practical road map guides you from crafting a meaningful business plan to
raising your business to the next level. It offers potent methods for keeping firm
financial control of your enterprise and insightful tips for avoiding the multitude of
financial barriers that may block your entrepreneurial dream.
Written by Steven Rogers, a leading educator at the prestigious Kellogg School of
Management, this reliable guidebook covers:
- The dual objectives of a business plan and how to ensure that both are fulfilled
- Differences between debt and equity financing and how and why to use each
- Real-world methods for structuring a deal to benefit both the financier and the
entrepreneur
- Valuation techniques for understanding what your business is truly worth
- Essential resources for finding the detailed information you need
Entrepreneurial Finance clearly explains the inescapable rules of finance and business
by using real-world examples and cutting-edge data from the Global Entrepreneurship
Monitor (GEM) research project. It features up-to-date coverage of phantom stock, options,
and the state of entrepreneurship in such countries as Canada, Europe, Asia, and South
America.
This definitive guide is effective in today's business climate, with robust,
no-nonsense coverage on everything from the new realities of revenue valuation and
thegrowth of women entrepreneurs to the fallout from the dot-com boom and the impact of
Sarbanes-Oxley on corporate governance.
Just because you're in business for yourself doesn't mean you're alone. Entrepreneurial
Finance helps you create a long-term plan for achieving maximum profit.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1 The Entrepreneurial Spectrum 1
Ch. 2 The Entrepreneur 17
Ch. 3 The Business Plan 55
Ch. 4 Financial Statements 81
Ch. 5 Financial Statement Analysis 103
Ch. 6 Cash Flow Management 149
Ch. 7 Valuation 179
Ch. 8 Raising Capital 229
Ch. 9 Debt Financing 237
Ch. 10 Equity Financing 275
Ch. 11 Financing for Minorities and Women 315
Ch. 12 Taking a Job with an Entrepreneurial Firm 327
Ch. 13 Intrapraneurship: Corporate Entrepreneurship 345
Conclusion 357
Appendices 359
Index 373
372 pages, Hardcover