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Strategic Journals Finance, May 24, London Course Tutors: Martin Delahunty, Elsevier, Chris Finch, Biochemical Society/Portland Press Strategic Journals Finance will be of importance to middle and senior publishing managers, who meet a multiplicity of financial problems in managing a journals portfolio. The aim of the course is to introduce finance and accounting problems that managers face at senior level, and to enable them to feel at ease working with finance and accounting experts. Programme: Portfolio risk management: including topics such as attitude to risk, balancing society versus proprietary and new versus mature journals, currency exposure. Decision making: including project appraisal, net present value, investment decisions, product & company valuation. Understanding the competitive environment: including Porter's Five Forces, pricing policy, strategic issues. Electronic business models: including print versus electronic, e-only, pay-per-view, licensing. Who should attend? This is a Level 2 course aimed at experienced journal publishing managers, publishing editors and publishers responsible for developing financial growth strategies for their portfolio. Additionally, financial controllers supporting journals and responsible for management accounting will benefit. For further information and an online booking form: http://www.alpsp.org/training/0605SJF.htm Amanda Whiting, Training Coordinator Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers email: [log in to unmask] telephone: 01865 247776, fax: 01865 247617