Finance and TreasuryStrategic Financial Management and Corporate Value Creation
Finance leaders are asked whether the organisation can afford something, when the more useful question is whether doing it will be worth more than the alternatives including doing nothing. This course covers answering that. Delegates work through value creation and the cost of capital that sets the bar any investment must clear, capital structure and the trade offs between debt, equity and retained earnings in markets where both are expensive. Portfolio choices are covered: which businesses to fund, hold and exit, and the discipline of exiting. Dividend and reinvestment decisions follow. Value drivers and the levers management actually controls are analysed. The course closes on communicating a financial strategy to a board and on the measures that show whether value was created.
Course objectives
- Establish the cost of capital and the bar an investment must clear
- Choose a capital structure where debt and equity are both expensive
- Decide which businesses to fund, hold and exit
- Apply the discipline of exiting a business
- Make dividend and reinvestment decisions defensibly
- Identify the value drivers management actually controls
- Communicate a financial strategy to a board and measure value created
Who should attend
- Chief financial officers and finance directors
- Group treasurers and heads of corporate finance
- Strategy and business development executives
- Senior finance managers preparing for CFO succession
- Investment and portfolio managers overseeing group subsidiaries
Course outline
- 01Affordability against worth
- 02Value creation and cost of capital
- 03Capital structure trade offs
- 04Debt, equity and retained earnings
- 05Portfolio choices and funding decisions
- 06Exit discipline
- 07Dividend and reinvestment policy
- 08Value drivers, board communication and measurement
Scheduled sessions
| Dates | Venue | Format | Price | Register |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 to 4 November 2026 | Online | Online | R6,500 per delegate | Register Now |
| 11 to 13 November 2026 | Durban, South Africa | Classroom | R14,950 per delegate | Register Now |
| 16 to 18 November 2026 | Nairobi, Kenya | Classroom | USD 995 per delegate | Register Now |