This third edition of The Corporate Finance Handbook is intended for the directors and owners of businesses whose continuing prosperity and growth depend upon putting in place and maintaining an appropriate balance of external funding. Within the spectrum of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), and after excluding those businesses that are sole traders or selfemployed, the Department of Trade and Industry has estimated that there are some 264,000 UK companies, described as ‘middle-sized businesses’, which generate almost one-third of all the money earned by British business and account for one-quarter of all employees. All of these companies have external financing requirements and it is to their senior management that the six. | corporate finance handbook 3rd edition consultant editor jonathan reuvid forewords by sir edward george governor the bank ofengland david irwin chief executive small business service 4 LEE CROWDER LL ANCE TENON corporate finance handbook corporate finance handbook 3rd edition consultant editor jonathan reuvid forewords by sir edward george governor the bank of england david irwin chief executive small business service LEE CROWDER ROYAL Sunalliance KOGAN PAGE .
