Financial News Training

Advanced Valuation, Restructuring & Modelling

23rd - 24th March 2010

London

Two-Day Programme

Delegate places are limited due to the practical nature of the course. Laptops are provided.

Explaining jargon

  • Defining valuation balance sheet
  • Importance of ROCE and Net Investment
  • Typical items that can mislead investors and valuers.


Defining ROCE: the impact of...

  • Different standards/policies
  • Goodwill
  • Pension costs
  • JV’s/Associates
  • Off Balance sheet: out of the picture?
  • R&D expenses
  • Working capital
  • Tax
  • Private company issues


Modelling extra’s...

  • Depreciation tax shield, deferred tax & capital allowances
  • Tax losses
  • Stock options – expenses & dilution
  • JV/Associates: cost or valuation?
  • Dividends
  • Restructuring and pensions provisions: creating a level playing field?


Valuation

Valuation - balance sheet

  • Reconciliation DCF/multiple valuation techniques
  • Defining growth, return and risk
  • Importance of ROCE and key drivers: margin and asset efficiency


Multiple valuation

  • Identifying key strengths/weaknesses of the following multiples:

             -EV/EBITDA: ROCE is key
             -EV/Sales: is margin important?
             -PEG: misleading numbers?
             -Price/Book: good or bad predictor of value?
             -Price/sales: when is it useful?

  • Choosing most appropriate multiple

             -Bear/Bull times
             -Distressed equity/restructuring – are multiples appropriate?

Discounted Cashflow

  • WACC revisited
  • Estimating optimum leverage
  • Characteristics of:

             -Cyclical companies
             -High growth/early stage companies
             -Stable companies
             -Distressed companies

  • 1, 2, 3 stage DCF models
  • Defining Free cashflow using NOPAT
  • Dealing with the terminus
  • Impact of installed and incremental ROCE


Restructuring

  • Liquidation or going concern - valuing the options
  • Valuing the competing interests

             -Senior debt
             -Subordinated debt
             -Equity classes

  • Restructuring options for:

             -Senior debt
             -Subordinated debt
             -Equity classes

  • Maximising value under a restructuring


Case Study:

  • Valuing the equity and debt of all stakeholders and deciding on the best course of action to balance competing interests.


 

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