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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. Practical methods to determine costs of capital, total invested capital, free cash flow, 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.

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

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DONALD R. BYRNE, M.B.A., Ph.D., has taught accounting, finance, and economics at several universities, including Notre Dame, Wayne State University, Central Michigan University, and the University of Detroit Mercy. He is the editor of An Economics Newsletter for the New Millennium (www.udmercy.edu/faculty/byrned/).

• Online course: Internet access required
• Enroll anytime: You have 6 months to complete
• $715 (EDP 897108)

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Textbook(s) for this course:
Note: University edition
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition
Author: McKinsey & Company, Inc.
Publisher: Wiley
Edition: 4th
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN: 0471702218

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Wed. March 25, San Francisco

ROBERT COACKLEY, B.S., is an engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). A mentor and coach for CEOs, Coackley has more than 20 years of experience as a CEO of both public and private companies. He has been an instructor for Golden Gate University and currently serves as an instructor in public education for the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

• 10 meetings
• March 25 to May 27: Wed., 6:30-9:30 pm
• San Francisco: Room 801, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
• $635 (EDP 306555)

Wed. June 3, San Francisco

ROBERT COACKLEY, B.S., is an engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). A mentor and coach for CEOs, Coackley has more than 20 years of experience as a CEO of both public and private companies. He has been an instructor for Golden Gate University and currently serves as an instructor in public education for the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary.

• 10 meetings
• June 3 to Aug. 5: Wed., 6-9 pm
• San Francisco: Room 807, UC Berkeley Extension Downtown Center, 425 Market St., 8th Floor (enter on Fremont St.)
• $650 (EDP 315226)

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