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Business Valuation

X431.9 (2 semester units in Business Administration)

An elective in the Professional Sequence in Personal Financial Planning

In this course, you learn to apply financial and economic theory to investment, financing, and dividend decisions in order to identify ways to maximize shareholder returns. The course is intended for analysts, bankers, mid-level treasurers, financial managers, and entrepreneurs.

Practical methods to determine costs of capital, total invested capital, free cash flow, corporate rate return, and economic profits are used in the valuation analysis for mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, capital budgeting, initial public offerings/private placements, leveraged buyouts, performance-based executive compensation, agency costs, control premiums/costs of marketability, and real options. Classroom section participants receive complimentary valuation software developed by the instructor.

Prerequisites: Basic Corporate Finance X430.1 and Introduction to Financial Accounting XB102A, or consent of instructor and professional experience.

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