Book Description
A practical guide to taking your company public—successfully This updated version of the Ernst & Young Guide to Taking Your Company Public looks at the IPO as a milestone in a larger process called The Value Journeysm, the basis for the work of the Ernst & Young Center for Strategic Transactions®, a business advisory resource for CEOs. This practical book is designed to help you determine whether an IPO is the right move for your company and addresses the major leadership challenges that CEOs face. It describes how to plan your IPO journey and chart your business strategy, focusing on the steps you must take to succeed during and after the IPO event and fulfill the critical need to continuously innovate and renew your company.


Book Info
Designed to provide guidance in determining whether an IPO is the right move for your company and addresses the major leadership challenges that CEOs face. Describes how to plan your IPO journey and chart your business strategy, focusing on the steps you must take to succeed during and after the IPO event. DLC: Going public (Securities)-U.S.


Card catalog description
"Ernst & Young has updated its Guide to Taking Your Company Public, incorporating the illuminating results of the research project into this new edition. The Ernst & Young Guide to the IPO Value Journey is a complete management guide for going public. "It has been revised to focus on the IPO as a lengthy process called The Value Journey", which has significant impact on company operations."--BOOK JACKET. "This book helps you decide whether an IPO is right for your company and lets you know what to expect from the various participants in the IPO process - the SEC, the financial community, the press, and various stakeholders. The IPO process itself is described in detail, together with information about how to work with underwriters, attorneys, auditors, and other advisors."--BOOK JACKET.


From the Inside Flap
The Ernst & Young LLP Guide to the IPO Value Journey® In recent years, initial public offerings have exploded in number and have enjoyed incredible performance at the outset. However, many companies fizzle during the first three years after going public, significantly underperforming the market both in profits and share price. Determined to identify the keys to successful IPOs, Ernst & Young began an ambitious research project called Managing the Success of the IPO Transformation Processsm. The research has shown that highly successful companies (Yahoo!, Lucent Technologies, ) treat IPO as a process—while the unsuccessful often treat it as a financing transaction. Ernst & Young has updated its Guide to Taking Your Company Public, incorporating the illuminating results of the research project into this new edition. The Ernst & Young Guide to the IPO Value Journey is a complete management guide for going public. It has been revised to focus on the IPO as a lengthy process called The Value Journey®, which has significant impact on company operations. This book helps you decide whether an IPO is right for your company and Lets you know what to expect from the various participants in the IPO process—the SEC, the financial community, the press, and various stakeholders. The IPO process itself is described in detail, together with information about how to work with underwriters, attorneys, auditors, and other advisors.Learn the pros and cons of becoming a public company— and the factors that separate the highly successful from the unsuccessfulDiscover the key legal, accounting, and reporting issues you will face with an IPO eventElicit better performance from your boardImplement strategic transactions, such as acquisitions, alliances, and recapitalizationExcel at the initiatives that must take place after the IPO


From the Back Cover
A practical guide to taking your company public—successfully This updated version of the Ernst & Young Guide to Taking Your Company Public looks at the IPO as a milestone in a larger process called The Value Journeysm, the basis for the work of the Ernst & Young Center for Strategic Transactions®, a business advisory resource for CEOs. This practical book is designed to help you determine whether an IPO is the right move for your company and addresses the major leadership challenges that CEOs face. It describes how to plan your IPO journey and chart your business strategy, focusing on the steps you must take to succeed during and after the IPO event and fulfill the critical need to continuously innovate and renew your company.


About the Author
Ernst & Young LLP (www.ey.com) provides assurance and advisory business services, tax services, and consulting for domestic and global clients. The firm has 30,000 employees in 87 U.S. cities. The practice is founder and producer of the Entrepreneur of the Year awards program, sponsored nationally by CNN and CNNfn, USA Today, the Nasdaq-Amex Market Group, and the Kauffman Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial Services practice is dedicated to accelerating the success of the world’s best entrepreneurs.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The ABCs of IPOs

A revised and updated edition of The Ernst & Young Guide to Taking Your Company Public, this practical book addresses a topic that will have significant impact on company operations in the years to come. It's packed with essential information on the process of taking your company public.