Whether it’s managing a portfolio, preparing for an imminent merger or acquisition, or marveling over the newest dollar figure attached to a tech wunderkind, valuation is the key to parsing and understanding the numbers.
Taught by Dr Bala G. Dharan, one of the leaders in the field, the overall goal of this 3 day masterclass is to help finance executives, accountants, financial consultants, and investors learn applied business valuation techniques and practices that are needed to successfully implement valuation concepts in practice. Dr. Dharan will address real-world application techniques and implementation issues for key valuation steps, including cash flow forecasting, cost of capital and terminal value, and for emerging valuation areas such as start-up, tech company valuation and intellectual property (IP) valuation. Emphasis is placed on learning valuation techniques and discussing examples of implementation from practice impacts M&A, financing, and valuation.
Course Delivery
The programme will be highly interactive and sessions will include combine:
Benefits of Attending
Who Should Attend?
Valuation: The Big Picture
Common Valuation Approaches Used in M&A
Technology Valuation Models
Forecasting Cash Flows and Financial Statements
Cost Capital and Terminal Value
Financial Analysis for Valuation
Dr. Bala Dharan, Ph.D., CPA, is Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and Visiting Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also a Managing Director at Berkeley Research Group, an international business and litigation consulting firm. Dr. Dharan has provided consulting and expert testimony on corporate finance, accounting and auditing, business valuation, and corporate governance issues. He has been invited three times to the United States Congress to testify on financial reporting issues, and has been a frequent invited speaker at various corporations and industry conferences. He has provided valuation and strategic consulting for several start-up businesses, and helped co-found a software technology business serving the banking industry.
Dr. Dharan is an award-winning teacher and has designed and taught dozens of corporate executive education offerings at Wharton School, Rice University, Indian School of Business, and other institutions. He has been a professor or visiting professor at leading global business schools, including MIT Sloan School of Management, University of California at Berkeley, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, Indian School of Business, and Jones School of Management at Rice University. His research centers on the strategic use of financial information by managers and investors. He is a co- author of four textbooks.
Dr. Dharan is a Certified Public Accountant (USA) with ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) credentials. He has a B-Tech degree in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, PGDM (MBA) from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and MS and Ph.D. degrees in accounting from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
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