To succeed in today's volatile business environment, executives need to understand and drive the strategy of their company on the basis of sound financial principles.
Finance for Executives: A Practical Guide for Managers
The book Finance for Executives: A Practical Guide for Managers meets the needs of global executives, both finance as well as non-financial managers. It makes finance simple and intuitive through a perfect balance of financial management theory and practice. It focuses on corporate finance concepts from value creation to derivatives, including cost of capital (and WACC), valuation, financing policies, project evaluation, and many other essential finance definitions.
The practical finance guide for finance and non-finance managers:
- Real-world examples and mini-case studies illustrate important financial concepts.
- Demystifies finance principles for managers
- No jargon, complicated math, and non-standard concepts that do not make intuitive sense!
- Short chapters ideal for busy executives who are exploring value-added activities. All chapters have Key Learning Points to aid understanding and application.
- Excel financial modeling tools
- Content drawn from research and practical interactions with thousands of executives across the world.
- Recommended by renowned practitioners and academics.
I have partnered with Professor Fernandes for many years at IMD, addressing managers of my own company or his MBA students, and I have always appreciated his pragmatic approach to finance management.
Professor Fernandes has worked with Shell for many years, fostering our finance leadership-capability. He blends a rigorous academic approach with sound and pragmatic case studies, and ask questions of CFOs that may otherwise go overlooked.
Professor Nuno Fernandes definitely met our expectations as a presenter. His keynote speech was quite insightful and his presentation style was interactive, engaging, and very thorough. Our members, top financial institutions based around the world, provided remarkable feedback as well.
Nuno Fernandes is an extremely engaging speaker, deeply knowledgeable about the global economy and current markets. His keynote speeches reflect his extensive experience in top academic circles, combined with a deep knowledge of the business world. His smart, sharp, assertive, yet fun, reflections about the reality, allow managers to have inspiring reflection moments.
Thought Leadership
- RESEARCH: Book – Finance for Executives: A Practical Guide for Managers, 2017, 2nd edition
- MEDIA ARTICLES: All bubbles eventually burst and SPACs are no exception, FT / The Banker, January 2023
- MEDIA ARTICLES: A Post-Truth World: Why Ronaldo Did Not Move Coca-Cola Share Price, Forbes, June 2021
- MEDIA ARTICLES: What the Tesla stock price tells us about market irrationality, Forbes, September 2020
- RESEARCH: Book Chapter – Sovereign Wealth Funds, in “Oxford Handbook of Sovereign Wealth Funds”, 2018, Oxford University Press
- RESEARCH: Multinationals and cash holdings, 2016, with H. Gonenc, Journal of Corporate Finance, Vol. 39, pp. 139-154
- MEDIA ARTICLES: Financial Illiteracy Rampant in the Corporate World, Financial Times, August 2014
- MEDIA ARTICLES: SNB sets country on path subject to greater external risks, Financial Times, 7 September 2011
- RESEARCH: The Impact of Sovereign Wealth Funds on Corporate Value and Performance, 2014, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol. 26, pp. 76-85.
- RESEARCH: Are US CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence, 2013, with M. Ferreira, P. Matos and K. Murphy, The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 26 (2), pp.
- CASE STUDIES: Equity Capital Raising – The SEO of Petrobras 2010
- CASE STUDIES: Shareholder Activism at Sony
- CASE STUDIES: The International Airline Group Rights Issue
- CASE STUDIES: Ultra: The Initial Public Offering