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Corporate Finance Jobs: Cozy Careers, But Bad “Plan B” Options

Brian DeChesare

Corporate finance jobs at normal companies are bad … …if you’re using them to break into a deal-based field, such as investment banking , private equity , or venture capital , or as a “Plan B” if you interview around but do not get into one of these. In my view, corporate finance jobs are not ideal “stepping stone roles.”

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Fostering better decisions through holistic ROI estimates

Mckinsey and Company

Net present value is the bedrock of ROI estimates, but adding other factors to the analyses can help business leaders see how projects can advance corporate priorities beyond financial returns.

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Capital Budgeting and the Meaning of Your Family Business

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

As family businesses look into capital projects, they often utilize quantitative corporate finance tools, including net present value analysis, internal rate of return, and other traditional analyses.

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Modeling Managers as EPS Maximizers

Reynolds Holding

In business schools, managers are taught to maximize the net present value (NPV) of future cash flows. We propose a theory of corporate finance based on the idea that firm managers maximize EPS: the difference between net operating profits and interest expense divided by total shares outstanding.

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Moonshots

Reynolds Holding

Managers who anticipate these agency problems won’t invest in a moonshot even if they believe it has a positive net present value. Investors are willing to finance an innovation project when early results from the project – revenue trends, user growth, clinical trial data – reliably indicate future profits.

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Capital Budgeting and the Meaning of Your Family Business

Auto Dealer Valuation Insights

As family businesses look into capital projects, they often utilize quantitative corporate finance tools, including net present value analysis, internal rate of return, and other traditional analyses.

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Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism!

Musings on Markets

It also follows that the investment, financing, and dividend decisions , at most firms, are interconnected, since for any given set of investments, borrowing more money will free up more cash flows to return to shareholders, and for any given financing, investing more back into the business will leave less in returnable cash flows.