Importance of finance in the different stages of the SME’s growth towards becoming a multi-national enterprise
Importance of finance in the different stages of the SME’s growth towards becoming a multi-national enterprise
You are a Finance Director of a medium sized enterprise (SME), growing in order to become a multi- national enterprise (MNE).
It is a manufacturing company located in the United Kingdom (UK) economy making high quality vacuum cleaners.
Discuss the importance of finance in the different stages of the SME’s growth towards becoming a multi-national enterprise with global operations.
You should include a discussion on both the positive and negative features of globalisation.
Core Readings
Major core readings
1. Multinational Business Finance (with MyFinanceLab), Global Edition, 14th Edition by
Eiteman, Stonehill& Moffett
©2016 | Pearson | Published: 12 Nov 2015
ISBN-10: 1292097981 | ISBN-13: 9781292097985
The course set text reading (2) see course reading list
– see reading week entry
2.(1) Credit Where It’s Due?
Access to Finance for High-Growth SMEs in the UK By
Ross Brown and Neil Lee
published in
Working Papers in Responsible Banking & Finance WP No15-001 1st Quarter 2015
© 2015 Centre for Responsible Banking & Finance School of Management University of St Andrews
available as a pdf on Canvas – see reading week entry SME Finance 2015 St Andrews Uni
Also
2.(2) Chapter 12
FINANCE AND GROWTH: THEORY AND EVIDENCE, by ROSS LEVINE
Department of Economics, Brown University and the NBER, 64 Waterman Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA
published in
The Handbook of Economic Growth, Volume 1A. Edited by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
DOI: 10.1016/S1574-0684(05)01012-9
available as a pdf on Canvas – see reading week entry
3. The Third Wave of Globalisation, January 2012, London, IPPR, by
Will Straw and Alex Glennie
with foreword by Lord Mandelson
published by The Institute for Public Policy Research, London available as a pdf on Canvas – see reading week entry
in addition:
Course Lecture notes – Available on Canvas
Week 9 Lecture ppt Sources of Finance & the UK Banking system