Business Valuation

Description

This course walks participants through the valuation techniques used to estimate enterprise values as well as large-scale investments in power plants, refineries, and oil and gas development projects. Moreover, we consider the value creation motives for the growing interest of private equity firms in electric power companies.

Benefits:

• Learn how to construct discounted cash flow forecasts used to value the business enterprise
• Estimate the appropriate cost of capital for valuing projects that have different risks
• Identify the pitfalls encountered in managing a capital allocation program including the role of influence costs and how to incorporate controls to help you avoid them
• Carry out sensitivity analysis of valuation projects including break-even sensitivity analysis and simulation
• Develop an understanding of the value creation potential hidden in your firm that could make it attractive to private equity investors

Faculty

Dr. Sheridan Titman, Department of Finance, and Dr. John Martin, Professor Finance, Baylor University