It is a pioneering book which combines strategic analysis of financial structures, policies, decisions and models. Providing an interface between strategy and finance, it facilitates both, strategic thinking and financial acumen. It contains original, pragmatically-tested ideas on strategic management of finance and financial evaluation of strategies, has plentiful of live case studies, many creative diagrammatic presentations, questions for intellectual discussions and solved numerical examples. A very useful book for the students of MBA, CIMA, CFA, CPA, CA, ICWA and other international programs on finance and serves the dual purpose of a text book and a reference book." New In This Edition :Full length chapters on Ratio analysis, Cost of capital, Sources of capital, Working capital management, Investment appraisal techniques,and Leasing :Detailed discussion on "Strategic use of derivatives" in the chapter "Innovative Financial Engineering" :Real corporate case studies at the end of each chapter illustrating various components of SFM