About International Journal of Managerial Finance

Aims and scope

Although financial in nature, the journal is interested in papers from all disciplines; in particular knowledge management, accounting and economics, which shed further light on the financing decision process.

Coverage includes, but is not limited to:

• Treasury and Financial Risk Management
• Redefining, measuring and identifying new methods to manage risk for financing decisions
• The role, costs and benefits of insurance and hedging financing decisions
• The role of rating agencies in managerial decisions
• Investment and Financing Decision Making
• The uses and applications of forecasting to examine financing decisions, measurement and comparisons of various financing options
• The public versus private financing decision
• The decision of where to be publicly traded – including comparisons of market structures and exchanges
• Short-term versus long-term portfolio management – choice of securities (debt vs equity, convertible vs non-convertible)
• Corporate Finance
• Managerial finance responses to the tightening of regulation in the wake of recent financial scandals
• The relationship between capital budgeting decision and financing decisions
• The role of corporate governance when designing new financing projects and establishing executive compensation
• Costs and benefits of mergers and acquisitions. Measurement of anticipated efficiency gains from restructuring
• The decision to initiate dividends versus share repurchases