Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Corporate Finance - Valuation

In order to be a successful CEO, corporate strategist, or analyst, understanding the valuation process is a necessity. The second edition of Damodaran on Valuation stands out as the most reliable book for...

Covers the key areas of valuation, from EVA and the importance of discounted cashflows to the disharmony in international accounting standards and valuing knowledge-based assets

Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including News Corporation, Genentech and Nokia, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Warren Buffett, Baruch Lev, Joel Stern, Alfred Steinherr and Peter Drucker

Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guide

Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is buy, sell or hold. But the pricing of many assets has become a more complex task in modern markets, especially after the recent financial crisis. In order to be successful at this endeavor, you must have a firm understanding of the proper valuation techniques. One valuation book stands out as withstanding the test of time among students of financial markets and investors, Aswath Damodaran'sInvestment...

Competitive Analysis for Firm Valuation explains why traditional methods of value computation are not only incomplete, but can be dangerously inaccurate. Until now, company valuation has been largely based on mathematical models and algorithmic analysis of tangible financial assets and liabilities. This is the first book to comprehensively address the valuation of key intangibles: human, intellectual, social, symbolic, and organizational assets.

Past performance is often the best predictor of future...

The market approach aims to establish the value of a company based on how similar firms are priced on the stock exchange or through company transactions. Using the market approach, price-related indicators such as price to earnings, sales and book values are utilised. An ever-present problem however, is that different valuation multiples and valuation methodologies tend to provide the analyst with contradictory outputs. The solution to this problem so far has been to claim that the market approach is more art than science, thus providing the analyst with the freedom to alter the multiples...

Corporate Valuation presents the most up-to-date tools and techniques for more accurate valuation in a highly volatile, globalized, and risky business environment. This insightful guide takes a multidisciplinary approach, considering both accounting and financial principles, with a practical focus that uses case studies and numerical examples to illustrate major concepts. Readers are walked through a map of the valuation approaches proven most effective post-crisis, with explicit guidance toward...

Counterparty Credit Risk, Collateral, and Funding, Second Edition is a unique financial guide, providing a much-needed reference for the technical details that other books leave out. Illustrating an in-depth quantitative approach to analyzing counterparty credit risk, funding costs, and valuation adjustments, this book helps practitioners apply sophisticated mathematical solutions to real-world problems. Quantitative models and methods are linked to concrete solutions in order to...

Financial Valuation: Applications and Models provides authoritative reference and practical guidance on the appropriate, defensible way to prepare and present business valuations. With contributions by 30 top experts in the field, this new fourth edition provides an essential resource for those seeking the most up-to-date guidance, with a strong emphasis on applications and models. Coverage includes state-of-the-art methods for the valuation of closely-held businesses, nonpublic entities, intangible, and...

This book aims to overcome the limitations the variations in bank-specifics impose by providing a bank-specific valuation theoretical framework and a new asset-side model. The book includes also a constructive comparison of equity and asset side methods. The authors present a novel framework entitled, the "Asset Mark-down Model." This method incorporates an Adjusted Present Value model, which allows practitioners to identify the main value creation sources of a particular bank: from asset-based cash flow and the mark-down on deposits, to tax benefits on bearing liabilities. Through the...