Strategic Finance engages strategic planning and budgeting topics and marries them to actionable steps that boards, presidents, and CFOs can take to navigate a course of institutional financial stability. Kent Chabotar draws on his considerable experience and years of practice to craft this comprehensive guide to higher education financial planning and budgeting. Chapters of Strategic Finance include: The Strategy of Environment, The Strategy-Focused Organization, Strategic Planning: Environment and Evaluation, Strategic Planning: Means and Ends, Strategic Budgets and the Budgeting Process, Coping with Financial Distress: Crisis and Retrenchment. Includes charts, graphs, case study, and index.