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Valuation book: how to value businesses and shares
- eBook
- 2024
- Mark Aleksanyan, Kenneth Lee, Matthias Meitner, Neil Pande
- Harriman House
An introductory valuation guide for anyone who needs to value a business. Covers topics including forecasting, discount rates, multiples-based valuation, present value models, and accounting-based models.
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Financial governance
- eBook chapter
- 2024
- Richard Leblanc (Editor)
- Wiley
Explores the practical realities of corporate governance in public, private, and not-for-profit environments. Part 5 looks at the audit committee's oversight of external audit, internal audit, risk management, technology and cybersecurity. Also covered are directors' responsibilities towards insolvency, fraud and financial reporting issues (mostly related to IFRS).
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BVB insights: data and analysis on UK private company multiples
- eBook
- 2024
- Business Valuation Benchmarks
- Business Valuation Benchmarks
Independent analysts, from BVB Ltd, have collated and interpreted transactions data involving private companies. The result is an in-depth overview of transaction multiples paid for UK private companies for the year ended December 2023 (previous editions are also available).
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Field guide to business valuation: for owners and leaders of private companies
- eBook
- 2022
- Casey Karlsen, Seth Webber
- BVR
Intended for business owners and their advisors who would like to learn more about how to estimate what a business is worth, what factors affect value, and how to make businesses more valuable.
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Hands-on financial modeling with Excel for Microsoft 365: build your own practical financial models for effective forecasting, valuation, trading, and growth analysis
- eBook
- 2022
- Shmuel Oluwa
- Packt
Financial modeling is a core skill required by anyone who wants to build a career in finance. This book explores financial modeling terminologies with the help of Excel. Starting with the key concepts of Excel, such as formulas and functions, this updated second edition will help you to learn all about referencing frameworks and other advanced components for building financial models.
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Valuing a business: the analysis and appraisal of closely held companies
- eBook
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
Covers different valuation principles and methods.
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Business valuation approaches and methods
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A lengthy section including four chapters on the income approach and its associated methods, as well as two chapters each on methods under the market approach and the asset-based approach respectively. Includes a number of practical pointers, from a US perspective.
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Introduction to valuing stock options
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A chapter providing an overview of some models and techniques commonly used in the valuation of options, including the Black–Scholes model, the binomial model, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques.
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Writing the business valuation report
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A US-focused chapter on the preparation and issuance of business valuation reports. Includes an overview of the International Valuation Standards business valuation reporting standards, as well as some practical guidelines and consideration of common errors.
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Sample report
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A sample business valuation report, written from a US perspective.
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Defining the assignment
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A chapter designed to help analysts to accurately and properly define their valuation assignment, and agree the scope of work with their client. Written from a US perspective. Includes a discussion of several bases (or standards) of value.
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Valuing specific assets, instruments, and interests
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A detailed section containing chapters on the valuation of various assets, instruments, and interests. Written from a US perspective, it covers intangible assets, debt securities, preferred securities, stock options, and complex capital structures.
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Discounts, premiums, and the value conclusion
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Shannon P. Pratt and the ASA Educational Foundation
- McGraw Hill Education
A detailed section covering various different valuation discounts and premiums, from a US perspective. Includes information on acquisition premiums and control premiums, as well as discounts for lack of control, lack of liquidity, and lack of marketability. Also considers the valuation reconciliation process.
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Understanding business valuation
- eBook
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- BVR
A US-focused guide to all of the main valuation approaches, methods, and techniques in an easy-to-read style.
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Valuing intangible assets: an overview
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- Business Valuation Resources, LLC
A chapter outlining certain key issues with regard to the valuation of separable intangible assets, from a US perspective.
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Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- Business Valuation Resources, LLC
A section providing a simplified, easy-to-read explanation of the Black-Scholes-Merton option pricing model.
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Other valuation assignments
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- Business Valuation Resources, LLC
A chapter providing some general information on certain specialised valuation assignments, from a US perspective. Covers the valuation of stock options, warrants, preferred stock, debt, and early-stage companies.
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Getting started
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- Business Valuation Resources, LLC
A chapter covering a number of preliminary matters which ought to be dealt with at the outset of a business valuation assignment. Written from a US perspective, it includes sections on deciding whether to accept the engagement, engagement letters, and the initial document request.
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Valuation principles and theory
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Gary R. Trugman
- Business Valuation Resources, LLC
A chapter explaining certain key business valuation principles and concepts, from a US perspective. Includes sections covering various standards (or bases) of value, and setting out how the purpose of the valuation influences the standard of value.
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Financial modeling in Excel for dummies
- eBook
- 2022
- Danielle Stein Fairhurst
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
This books provides practical hands-on exercises to help you build powerful models from scratch, and to work with existing financial models in Excel. Includes chapters on tools and techniques for financial modeling, applying scenarios, charting and presenting model output, building an integrated financial statements model, discounted cash flow valuation, and budgeting for capital expenditure and depreciation.
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Building a discounted cash flow valuation
- eBook chapter
- 2022
- Danielle Stein Fairhurst
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Explains how the discounted cash flow (DCF) method works, the pieces of information needed for its use, and how it may be implemented via Microsoft Excel. Includes practical examples.
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Valuing businesses using regression analysis: a quantitative approach to the guideline company transaction method
- eBook
- 2021
- C. Fred Hall III
- Wiley
Demystifies regression-based valuation through simple explanations, easy-to-understand charts, and time-saving bonus resources.
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When numbers don't add up: accounting fraud and financial technology
- eBook
- 2020
- Faisal Sheikh
- Business Expert Press
The book begins with a brief assessment of corporate crime, fraud in general, and how accounting fraud is different. There is a review of notorious cases such as Enron (2001) and recently Toshiba (2015), including the socioeconomic consequences of this nefarious crime.
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Forensic Analytics: Methods and Techniques for Forensic Accounting Investigations
- eBook
- 2020
- Mark J. Nigrini
- Wiley
This book outlines a framework for and a systematic series of audit data analytics tests that should function well as a starting set of detective controls. The tests are not based on complicated statistics and should be quite easy to understand for anyone that has done well in a handful of accounting courses.
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Financial modeling for decision making: using MS-Excel in accounting and finance
- eBook
- 2020
- Ron Messer
- Emerald Publishing Limited
This book provides accounting students in post-secondary institutions with an advanced level understanding of how to use MS-Excel.
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Business valuation decisions: How much is my company worth?
- eBook chapter
- 2020
- Ron Messer
- Emerald Publishing Limited
A chapter on using discounted cash flow models within MS-Excel to aid business valuation decisions.
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Artificial Intelligence for Audit, Forensic Accounting, and Valuation : A Strategic Perspective
- eBook
- 2020
- Al Naqvi
- John Wiley & Sons,
An artificial intelligence revolution is sweeping through the world. Auditors and forensic accountants in firms of all sizes and types are trying to understand what it means for them. Many want to explore how to build plans for total intelligent automation to move their companies forward into the new AI economy.
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Art of business valuation: accurately valuing a small business
- eBook
- 2020
- Gregory R. Caruso
- Wiley
This book examines a range of questions you may encounter in a valuation process. The book will supply helpful solutions to common issues that arise when a small business is valued.
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Valuation: measuring and managing the value of companies
- eBook
- 2020
- McKinsey & Company Inc, Tim Koller, Marc Goedhart, David Wessels
- Wiley
This latest edition has been revised and updated throughout, and includes new insights on topics such as digital, ESG (environmental, social and governance), and long-term investing, as well as fresh case studies. Clear, accessible chapters cover the fundamental principles of value creation, analyzing and forecasting performance, capital structure and dividends, valuing high-growth companies, and much more.
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Early stage valuation: a fair value perspective
- eBook
- 2020
- Antonella Puca
- Wiley
Addresses significant developments in the valuation of early stage enterprises at fair value with emphasis on practical applications--features a broad selection of case studies of early stage valuation.
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