Corporate Valuation Techniques (Intermediary & Advanced)

This programme provides the delegates with a detailed understanding of the practical application of company valuation techniques through excel modelling. It will be assessed value versus price, growth valuations versus value as well as company techniques, the perspective of techniques, the central importance of risk in company valuations, free cash flow dynamics and the relationship between FCF, ROC and IRR.

Corporate Finance is all about looking at a company through the eyes not of the shareholders and not the eyes of the lender, but through the eyes of the managers who have to drive the decision-making within the company. 

This highly applied and practical valuations courses focuses on valuation techniques directed at the three main pillars of Corporate Finance namely:

• Valuation – where the modelling implications are
  • DCF valuation models, including financial forecasting;
  • pricing models;
  • dividend models;
• Capital Structuring – where the modelling implications are
  • Debt capacity and debt serviceability calculations;
• Mergers & Acquisitions – where the modelling implications are

Valuation, pricing, debt serviceability (as above) plus consolidations

• Model Design & Best Practice
• The Four Types of Financial Modelling
• Modelling Layouts
• Valuation Models
• Risk and Free Cash Flow
• The Cashflow Projection, the discount rate
• Pricing and breakeven (the use and application of break even analysis in modelling)
• Cash flow volatility and its impact on valuation (volatility models, NPV and IRR and the problems limitations of both calculation in terms of valuations)
• Theme: Financing, Debt Serviceability, and Debt Capacity
• The purpose of the cashflow waterfall;
• The types of flexibility to be included