Corporate investment management: from beginner to expert.
Corporate investment management: from beginner to expert.
Do you want to understand the financial press?
Do you want to start a career in finance?
Or do you want to improve your knowledge to become an expert in how to create stakeholder value?
This course will make sure that you can respond to the answers positively in a very fast pace!
Being able to assess whether an investment project is worth executing, it is of crucial importance to master the right techniques. When the investment project is another company to be taken over, failing to making a proper analysis could destroy substantial value.
This course includes 10 chapters in the areas of corporate investments:
Goals and governance of the firm
Investment vs financing decisions
Role of the financial manager
The investment trade-off
Economic rents and competitive advantage
The investment decision
Positive NPV-rule (including constant growth perpetuity and annuity calculations)
Estimation of free cash flows
Estimation of the discount rate
Weighted average cost of capital
Project WACC vs. company WACC
Capital structure decisions
Cost of debt
Cost of equity
Capital assets pricing model (CAPM)
Markowitz' mean-variance approach
Estimating and interpreting beta
Arbitrage pricing theory
Fama and French (1992) free-factor model
Carhart (1997) four-factor model
Why financing decisions matter
Taking inflation into account
sensitivity checks, scenario analysis and simulations
Agency problems
Agency problems of equity
Agency problems of debt
Overinvestment problem
Underinvestment problem
Other investment techniques
Present value index
Profitability index
Accounting rate of return
Internal rate of return
Method of the typical year
Payback period
iscounted payback period
Economic value added and market value added
EVA
MVA
Comparing EVA, MVA and NPV
Valuing bonds and the theory of interest rates
Corporate vs government bonds
Valuing a simple bond
Term structure of interest rates
Credit risk driving yields
Valuing companies
Book value vs. market value vs. intrinsic value
Comparable companies approach
Dividend discount model
Discounted cash flow model
Capital structure theories
Trade-off theory
Pecking-order theory
Jensen's FCF theory
Behavioral finance theories
Financial slack
WACC in case of multiple sources of financing
Adjusted present value approach
Financial benchmarks
Importance for coporate finance analyses
The benchmark ecosystem
Regulation
Euribor and Eonia as well as their reforms
Alternative RFRs
Private equity, venture capital and buyout investments
Definition
Venture capital vs. buyouts
Types of buyouts (leverage buyouts, management buyouts, secondary buyouts, family buyouts, divisional buyouts, etc.)
Syndication of buyout investors
Buyouts: value creation?
Real options analysis
Difference with traditional investment analysis
Financial options analysis
Valuation using the Black & Scholes formula
Value of a company
Binomial models (method of the replicating portfolio, neutral probabilities approach, etc.)
Disadvantages of real options analysis
Each of the chapters contains examples and practical advantages and challenges are discussed.
Learn how to apply various techniques to assess investment projects and value corporates.
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What you will learn
- You will learn the rol that financial managers play and the investment trade-offs they need to make.
- You will learn how to use the net present value (NPV) rule to assess whether to invest in a project.
- You will be able to estimate free cash flows (FCFs).
Rating: 4.5
Level: All Levels
Duration: 16 hours
Instructor: Randy Priem
Courses By: 0-9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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