Corporate Valuation

The value of a business is essneitally related to three main factors: its current operations, its future prospects and its embedded risk. The recent financial crisis completely reshaped the framework for each of these elements with a major impact on the concept of "value" and on the metrics to measure it. Corporations now do business in a context becoming progressively faster, more diverse and more interconnected so that also valuing their current operations is increasingly more complex. Secondly, forecasting future macro and business related dynamics is getting less standardized in a busines environment characterized by difficult-to-predict changes, both on the upside and on the downside, and by constant innovation. Thirdly, new types of risks and competition, so far unknown, are shaping both the operational and the financial side of enterprises, redfining the importance to manage uncertainty as a key element to achieve success. In this context, "Corporate Valuation" offers investment bankers and equity analysts many new insights. First, the book provides a more modern and thorough analysis of the idea of value. In an environment characterized by an increased complexity where the concept itself of value is challenged, the first part of the book provides a multidisciplinary perspective on valuation, which considers both accounting and financial principles. Second, the book introduce several new models and valuation techniques not featured in main valuation manuals, including the scenario-based valuation, the Montecarlo analysis, the advanced tools to perform relative valuation (eg harmonic mean, adjustments to take into account the leverage degree, structuring of deal multiples...). Finally, an ad hoc chapter will cover valuations in litigation and restructuring settings. The approach will be eminently practical with cases and numerical examples. The book will walk the reader through a map of the valuation approaches to use in the post-financial crisis explaining how to choose the models and how to enhance with advanced tools their accuracy.In particular, the book will specifically describe several sophisticated techniques which explicitly consider the centrality of the risk element, including: Scenario analysisMonte Carlo simulationRisk adjusted valuation multiplesCyclically adjusted valuation multiplesAnalysis and decomposition of deal multiplesValuations for litigation and restructuring purposes