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Hospitality Leadership Through Learning
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Financial Decision Making for Value Creation

    Course Focus

    This course examines an important trend in today’s competitive hospitality climate - the emphasis on creating and enhancing the wealth of firm owners. Participants will actively explore three essential components of this trend: investing, financing, and the interrelationships between financial strategy and the overall strategic mission of hospitality firms. The format utilizes a combination of highly-interactive lectures and real-world case discussions

    Key Benefits

    Participants gain the analytic tools and techniques necessary for the successful implementation of their financial strategies and acquire a direct understanding of how effectively-defined financial- strategy decisions contribute to lasting value for hospitality operators and owners.

    Topics include:

    • Coping with difficult financial times
    • Understanding and using the right valuation techniques:
    • - Comparable multiple analysis
    • - Comparable transactions analysis
    • - Discounted cash flow analysis
    • Capturing relevant risks in project hurdle rates
    • Learning how to finance projects optimally:
    • - Debt versus equity
    • - Short-term versus long-term debt
    • - Fixed-rate versus floating-rate debt
    • - Straight versus convertible debt

    Faculty

    • Scott Gibson, Ph.D., Associate Professor, The College of William & Mary School of Business: Ithaca, New York, U.S.A., (July 1 - 3, 2010)

    Level B

    * The prerequisite for this course is "Thinking Like a Financial Manager" (offered in Ithaca June 28 – 30) or its online equivalent, Thinking Like a Financial Manager.

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