Business Valuation Modeling Part I
SubscribeLevel 5
Approx 7h to complete
100% online and self-paced
Overview
Recommended Prep Courses
These preparatory courses are optional, but we recommend you to complete the stated prep course(s) or possess the equivalent knowledge prior to enrolling in this course:
- Accounting Fundamentals
- Reading Financial Statements
- Excel Crash Course
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Building a 3 Statement Financial Model
Business Valuation Modeling Course Overview
This business valuation course provides students with the skills they need to perform detailed business valuation modeling using three main methods: Comps, Precedents and DCF Analysis.
The valuation training provided in this course will be valuable to those who are looking for a detailed and step-by-step explanation of how to value a company based on comparable companies, past M&A transactions and a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) models.
Business Valuation Methods
Business Valuation Course Learning Objectives
Upon completing this course, you'll be able to:
- Understand the difference between equity value and enterprise value
- Learn how to calculate various equity and enterprise value multiples
- Understand the drivers of equity multiples and value a business using equity multiples
- Calculate and analyze valuation multiples
- Learn the most common multiples: EV/Revenue, EV/EBITDA, EV/EBIT, P/E
- Learn when it is most appropriate to use each type of multiple
- Value a company using comparable company analysis
- Value a company using precedent M&A transactions
- Value a company using discounted cash flow techniques
- Complete Excel-based case studies and solutions
- Utilize a PDF valuation reference guide that can be downloaded to your computer and use during the course of for future reference.
- Calculate free cash flows to the firm and free cash flows to equity
- Outline the main drivers of free cash flows
- Value a business using a two-stage DCF valuation model
- Learn how to calculate the cost of equity, cost of debt and the weighted average cost of capital
- Calculate beta in an Excel spreadsheet
- Calculate an organization's weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Create a football field chart to summarize the various valuation methods used in the analysis: Comps, Precedents, DCF
Allocating Cash Flow by Investor Type
Comparable Company Analysis
Learn how to build a Comps table and calculate all the equity value and enterprise value ratios required to value a business.
Drivers of Business Valuation
Learn about the main drivers of free cash flow to the firm and business valuation in this course.
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Modeling
In this corporate valuation course, you will learn to build a DCF model from scratch, building on the skills you developed from CFI's prior courses on building a 3 statement model.
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) - Corporate Valuation
Learn how to perform weighted average cost of capital (WACC) analysis in Excel and use the slope function to calculate a company's beta.
Corporate Valuation Football Field Chart
Create a football field chart in Excel at the end of the course to combine the analyses of all methods used in the corporate valuation model built earlier in the course.
Who Should Take This Corporate Business Valuation Course
This online class is designed for professionals working in private equity, investment banking, corporate development, and other areas of finance and accounting. The course provides both foundational building blocks for beginners and covers more advanced aspects of valuation for experienced practitioners.
Financial Modeling and Analyst Training
For beginners to advanced users, this corporate valuation modeling course is designed to teach you how to be a complete financial analyst.
This class is one of the 10 required "Core" courses for CFI's financial analyst training program, which grants the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) certification.
What You'll Learn
Become a certified Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)®
Business Valuation Modeling Part I is part of the Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA)® certification, which includes 30 courses.
- Skills Learned Financial Modeling and Valuation, Sensitivity Analysis, Strategy
- Career Prep Investment Banking and Equity Research, FP&A, Corporate Development
Path To Certification
Prerequisite Courses
7 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
01OptionalCore Courses
11 courses from beginner to intermediate level.
02RequiredElective Courses
Take 3 out of 11 courses at an advanced level.
03RequiredGet Certified
Submit your FMVA® checklist and order your certificate.
04Required
Join Our Community
Get access to the Global Corporate Finance Society.
05Optional
How the Certification Works
What Our Students Say
Was very good, understandable even for a none finance person
Cowden John Mphande
it was amazing course with multiple aspects for better understanding of concepts and truly comprehensive considering Calculations, concluding, summarizing and graphing it.
Mohamed Radi Mansour
It is a very good course which gives you an understanding of valuation models which tells about the worth of a company and this course help in drawing models in excel which is easy to understand by one who takes your report.
Prinshul Agrawal
Extremely useful evaluation methods to find the intrinsic value of a company and its share price.