The problem
What return does your business have to beat just to stand still? If you can’t answer to the decimal, every investment decision you make is a guess dressed up as analysis.
Companies grow themselves poorer all the time — funding projects that clear an accounting hurdle but destroy economic value, using one blended hurdle rate for wildly different risks, buying back shares at prices that vandalise the balance sheet. The cost of capital is the line every decision has to clear, and most firms carry it in their heads, wrongly.
Corporate finance is the discipline of only saying yes to what creates value. It has a small set of tools, and they are not optional.
What this book gives you
How to Master Corporate Finance Frameworks gives you the 17 models that decide how a company raises, allocates and returns capital — each a full chapter with the working model behind it.
- WACC
- Cost of Equity (CAPM)
- Optimal Capital Structure
- ROIC
- Economic Profit (EVA)
- NPV & IRR
- Share Buyback Analysis
- Lease-versus-Buy
… 17 in all, from the cost of capital to the payout decision.
See it move
Build your WACC from the cost of equity and the after-tax cost of debt. Shift the debt weighting up and the blended cost falls — until the rising risk of that debt pushes it back up. Find the low point and you’ve found your optimal capital structure. Move one input and watch every downstream investment decision reprice. This is the number everything else hangs on.
Buying more than one category? All 25 books and every one of the 467 models are £29.99 in the Business Framework Omnibus — less than the price of a third book. Prefer to try first? The free Framework Starter Pack gives you five complete chapters and their live Excel models.
17 frameworks. One category. The complete learning path. Every model in Corporate Finance Frameworks — explained, applied, and ready to use.
How to Master Corporate Finance Frameworks walks you through the complete arc: 17 models, in the order you'd actually learn them, each with a full practitioner chapter and a live Excel companion.
- 17 models across Corporate Finance Frameworks, the complete learning path
- Full practitioner chapters plus a live Excel companion for every model
- Written from 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity
Corporate Finance Frameworks at a Glance
