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Enhance your knowledge of international corporate finance

The new Advanced International Corporate Finance programme has been built on the former Corporate Financial Strategy in Global Markets programme, and whilst retaining the core advanced international finance dimension, it is now a condensed four-day programme with an optional introductory day. As well as having a strong focus on finance using advanced case studies developed and written by INSEAD faculty, the objective is to strengthen participants understanding of international corporate finance. This programme is ideal for those who already possess strong financial knowledge and who want to sharpen their ability to make better investment decisions in an international context.

In today's turbulent business environment, successful finance professionals need to be well equipped to deal with the increasingly complex and global challenges they face. Valuation, undervaluation and raising finance are complicated enough at the best of times, but in today’s international marketplaces and constantly shifting global economy, they are more challenging than ever. And when the deals you are doing cross borders and currencies, the risks become even greater.

The INSEAD Advanced International Corporate Finance programme will help you develop a strategic understanding of key financial decisions faced by organisations today by putting them into an international context. The programme is directed at Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), Board Members, investment bankers and consultants and other senior executives who want to deepen their knowledge of corporate finance. The course will challenge existing frameworks and techniques and will help you to think beyond your national or regional context by studying advanced international case studies developed and written by INSEAD faculty.

INSEAD’s finance professors, who are responsible for designing and delivering the programme, are among the most highly ranked in the world for their research. And your peers in the INSEAD classroom will come from leading international companies. Together, they will challenge your preconceptions, broaden your global outlook and help take your performance to new levels.

Key benefits 

• Make better investment, financing and pay-out decisions in an international context
• Accurately measure the impact of your strategic decisions on shareholder value as well as on risk
• Strengthen your knowledge of global financial markets
• Increase your tactical finance capabilities and improve your valuation skills

• Interview with Theo Vermaelen, Programme Director of the Advanced International Corporate Finance programme
• Mastering International Corporate Finance: A Past Participant Interview

Through a mix of theory and case studies from around the world, the programme will focus on the following topics:

Optional introductory day

• A short, sharp refresher on the fundamentals of company valuation, including company valuation, cost of capital and optimal capital structure

Advanced international project valuation and public-private partnerships

• Understanding international valuation methods for highly leveraged transactions, such as leveraged buyouts or project finance, where debt changes over time and the assumptions of the WACC do not hold

Dealing with the international dimension of risk

• A comprehensive session on currency and country risks and the use of industrial and financial strategies to avoid exposure in a way that minimizes the cost and creates values by managing risk using the business plan and industrial policy of the company

Value creation in raising capital

• Exploring the main issues involved in raising equity capital and being publicly traded

Tactical issues in finance

• Understanding and exploring the options for companies that find themselves undervalued

The Advanced International Corporate Finance programme is designed for executives and board members who want to sharpen their finance knowledge, especially in an international context.

Invariably diverse and international, the participants possess a very good understanding of finance theories and are already familiar with the valuation and capital structure concepts. They typically are:
 

• CFOs
• Board members
• Financial analysts
• Finance professionals involved in the structuring and evaluation of Public-private partnerships
• Consultants with a particular focus on corporate finance
• Pension fund managers involved with valuation issues relating to public private partnership infrastructure projects
• Investment bankers

At INSEAD you will be in a classroom with peers, drawn from all over the world, who are facing similar issues and challenges to yours. You will learn from the fusion of world-class faculty, thought leadership and global diversity that delivers a unique learning experience and transforms the thinking of business executives from all over the world.

Great minds don’t think alike

INSEAD’s professors represent many cultures, disciplines, and perspectives. Led by acknowledged world experts in their own particular fields, programme faculty remain intimately close to business and most are engaged in cross-disciplinary research.*

	Theo Vermaelen Programme Director Professor of Finance The Schroders Chaired Professor of International Finance and Asset Management Theo Vermaelen teaches in MBA, PhD and Executive programmes. He is a graduate from the Department of Applied Economics at the Catholic University of Leuven (Commercial Engineer) and obtained an MBA and PhD in Finance from the Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. Read more...
	Massimo Massa Professor of Finance The Rothschild Chaired Professor of Banking Co-Director of the Hoffmann Research Fund		Pierre Hillion Professor of Finance The de Picciotto Chaired Professor of Alternative Investments Program Director of the INSEAD-Macquarie Master of Finance Chair, Finance Area

*programme faculty may change

Dates & Fees

This programme is eligible for the INSEAD Executive Certificate in Global Management.

Please click here for more information about the terms and conditions.

For full details on how to apply, accommodation, and cancellation conditions please visit the Practical Information page.

*Fee subject to change. For programmes delivered in France, VAT (19.6%) to be added for companies based in France, or for European companies where no VAT number is supplied. For programmes delivered in Singapore, GST (7%) to be added for Singapore-registered companies.