Business Valuation and Acquisitions

Overview

How can you add value to your business?

Financial management is fundamentally about creating and managing value, the importance of what "value" is, and knowing what drives it. In this course, you will learn how to use financial statements to value a business, the differences between a share value and a share price, and how "risk" can be measured for an investment.

Value added topics

• Earnings based valuation
• Asset based valuation
• Intangible Assets
• Stock market efficiency
• How risk influences return
• CAPM

Gain experience with detailed exercises

The practical hands-on exercises use real-world examples and are designed to give you insights into business valuation and acquisitions and to help you get a deeper understanding of the variables in business valuation to make the right decisions.

This is a standalone course but if you're interested in more of this type of learning while earning a designation, explore the CGMAr Finance Leadership Program.

Highlights

Key Topics

• Asset and earnings based valuation
• Market valuation of businesses
• Capital asset pricing model

Prerequisites

None

Designed For

Who Will Benefit

• Global accounting and finance professionals
• Management accounting professionals
• Controllers
• CFOs
• Finance vice presidents
• Finance directors
• CPAs and CAs

Objectives

Learning Outcomes

• Determine assets and earnings bases for valuing a business, including intangible assets.
• Assess market conditions that cause actual values (share prices) to differ from those calculated using cash, earnings, or asset bases.
• Evaluate business values using the capital asset pricing model (CAPM).