Surgent's Exploring Business Valuation Fundamentals

Overview

What makes a business valuable? Who determines value? What are the key factors that make businesses valuable? In this course, we explore the different ways to value a business. We will apply foundational valuation and corporate finance concepts to real world examples in an effort to see what makes up an investment's price.

Prerequisites

None

Objectives

• Describe the factors affecting the value of a business
• Compare and contrast market value, investment value, bankruptcy value, and going concern value
• List the key differences between technical and fundamental analysis
• Calculate intrinsic value using discounted cash flow methods, such as the GGM and the H-Model
• Calculate intrinsic value using free cash flow
• Calculate the gains and losses to the buyer/seller in a merger/acquisition
• List key discounts when valuing privately held companies

Highlights

• What does value mean?
• Technical vs. fundamental analysis
• Intrinsic value
• Other discounted cash flow models
• Assumptions in the Gordon Growth Model
• Valuations using free cash flows
• Residual income model
• Enterprise value
• Value in mergers and acquisitions
• Small business valuations and discounts
• Advanced valuation models