Overview
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Learn how to value a business using different valuation methods, such as multiples, earnings ratios, and discounted cash-flow analysis.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Understanding and using 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
- 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
- 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
- McDonald's history and facts
- McDonald's numbers
- Dividend-based valuation
- Earnings and equity multiples
- Discounted cash flow valuation
- Compare the valuation models
- Final advice on using business valuation techniques
