BUSINESS VALUATION AND FINANCIAL PLANNING

SECS-P/07 - 9 CFU - 2° semestre

Docente titolare dell'insegnamento

CLAUDIA FRISENNA

Obiettivi formativi

Kowledge

The aim of the course is to provide students with both the conceptual framework of business valuation issues and the practical skills required in the job-market about investment decisions and consulting services. During the course the commonly used approaches are critically analyzed, particularly with respect to Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and Relative valuations. At the end of the course students will acquire theoretical instruments to critically understand, interpret and apply modern techniques of business valuation and the relationship with financial markets’ behavior.

Applying Kowledge

The course has a very strong operative focus and students will learn how to prepare rigorous corporate valuation projects, compliant to international standards.

During the course, student will learn-by-doing:

how to interpret and use financial information from corporate annual reports;
how to prepare cash flows projection, making reliable assumption about future estimates;
how to assess corporate risk profile and its relationship with discount rates used in the analysis;
how to measure and use stock market multiples;
how to prepare consistent database and address estimation concerns.

At the end of the course, students will be able to apply both Discounted Cash Flow and Relative analyses, identifying the most appropriate approaches according to the final aim of the valuation.

Modalità di svolgimento dell'insegnamento

In Class Lessons.

In cases of on-line classes, all necessary changes will be introduced in order to comply with the planned program.

Prerequisiti richiesti

English. Financial Statement. Accounting Rules. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance. Present Value. Statistical Distribution.

Frequenza lezioni

Compulsory.

Contenuti del corso

The valuation philosophy; Subjective Biases; Fundamentals: rates, returns, growth; Rates; Valuation approaches: intrinsic, relative and contingent; Business valuation in professional applications; Leasing; Project financing. Case studies.

Testi di riferimento

Text1: A. Damodaran, “Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset, 3rd ed., Wiley (University edition);

Text 2: Lecture Notes

Altro materiale didattico

http://studium.unict.it/dokeos/2019/index.php

Programmazione del corso

	Argomenti	Riferimenti testi
1	Introduction to Valuation	Text 1. Ch. 1
2	Approaches to Valuation: Intrinsic and Relative Valuation	Text 1. Ch. 2
3	Understanding Financial Statements	Text 1. Ch. 3
4	Basics of Intrinsic Valuation. Discounted Cash Flows Valuation.	Text 2
5	Dividends and Free Cash Flows.	Text 2
6	Estimating Discount Rates. Cost of Equity. CAPM.	Text 2
7	Risk-Free Rates and Default Spread.	Text 1. Ch. 7
8	Historical Equity Risk Premium	Text 1. Ch. 7
9	Implied Equity Risk Premium	Text 1. Ch. 7
10	Country Risk Premium	Text 1. Ch. 7
11	Historical Market Beta	Text 1. Ch. 8
12	Bottom-Up Beta	Text 1. Ch. 8
13	Cost of Debt.	Text 1. Ch. 8
14	Market Value of Equity. Market Value of Debt. WACC.	Text 1. Ch. 8
15	Estimating Cash Flows. Adjusting Earnings.	Text 1. Ch. 9
16	Estimating Cash Flows. Reinvestment Needs.	Text 1. Ch. 10
17	Estimating Growth. Historical Growth Rates.	Text 1. Ch. 11
18	Estimating Growth. Fundamental Growth Rates.	Text 1. Ch. 11
19	Closure in Valuation. Estimating High-Growth Period and Growth Pattern.	Text 1. Ch. 12
20	Closure in Valuation. Estimating Terminal Value. Stable Growth Rate.	Text 1. Ch. 12
21	Estimating Equity Value per Share. The Value of Cash, Cross Holdings, Other Assets.	Text 1. Ch. 16
22	Valuing Employee Options.	Text 1. Ch. 16
23	Dividends Discount Model.	Text 1. Ch. 13
24	Free Cash Flows to Equity Discount Model.	Text 1. Ch. 14
25	Free Cash Flows to the Firm Model.	Text 1. Ch. 15
26	Basics of Relative Valuation. Multiples.	Text 1. Ch. 17
27	Equity Side and Asset Side Multiples.	Text 1. Ch. 18,19
28	Analyzing Multiples	Text 1. Ch. 18,19
29	Finding Comparables. Market regressions.	Text 2
30	Valuing Private Firms	Text 1. Ch. 24

Verifica dell'apprendimento

MODALITÀ DI VERIFICA DELL'APPRENDIMENTO

Grades will be assigned on the basis of the results of one project, a written and an oral exam.

If necessary, the verification of learning will be carried out telematically.

ESEMPI DI DOMANDE E/O ESERCIZI FREQUENTI

Valuation approaches; terminal value; private company valuation; total beta; DCF valuation; relative valuation; price vs value.

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