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Finance Foundations: Business Valuation

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Overview

Learn how to value a business using different valuation methods, such as multiples, earnings ratios, and discounted cash-flow analysis.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Understanding and using business valuations
1. Calculating Business Valuations
  • Why business valuation matters
  • Basic appraisal concepts
  • Market approach to business valuation
  • Cost approach to business valuation
  • Income approach and the time value of money
2. Price Multiples
  • Microsoft IPO and the valuation process
  • Valuation of a home
  • Earning multiples
  • Equity multiples
  • Sales multiples
  • WhatsApp acquisition and using other multiples
  • Use price-to-sales ratio to value foreign companies
3. Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
  • Use discounted cash flow on a car purchase
  • Cash flows, timing, and risk
  • Risk and interest rates
  • Cash flow forecasts
  • Use discounted cash flow analysis to determine a company's value
4. Case Study: Valuing McDonald's
  • McDonald's history and facts
  • McDonald's numbers
  • Dividend-based valuation
  • Earnings and equity multiples
  • Discounted cash flow valuation
  • Compare the valuation models
Conclusion
  • Final advice on using business valuation techniques

Taught by

Jim Stice and Kay Stice

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