Investment Valuation

Course review:

This is a hands-on, step by step, practical review of investment valuation. The key emphasis is to really understand what are the key value drivers in business, how financial reporting can be distorted, and the benefits and disadvantages of each major approach.

The emphasis is on understanding the key concepts from MBA/MSC finance and doctoral level as well as practical professional approaches and then testing the knowledge with different exercises and cases.

This course will sharpen your skills and make you more confident that so that you can work on mergers and acquisitions, projects, and engage in day to day corporate finance activities better.

Related issues of due diligence, and financial reporting/governance are also discussed in some detail to show the core issues that must addressed if they are to protect the firms involved in making an investment.The Overall Context of Valuations

• Fundamentals Of Understanding Value -Financial, Legal and Accounting Dimensions
• Due Diligence
• Valuation and Valuation multiples: Accounting calculations-balance sheets, cash statements, and other issues
• Investment issues
• WACC and CAPM in detail
• Option Value and Project life
• Mergers and acquisition Issues in detail
• EVA methods
• CRFOI and EVA compared
• Distressed company issues
• Financial Modelling
• Capstone In depth Valuation exercise on 3 companies