Course Is on Learning How to Assess Financial Performance

Interco The focus of the course is on learning how to assess financial performance and value creation, value firms, and to manage firms for value creation. The centerpiece of the course is the discounted cash flow model for valuing firms and projects. The course provides rigorous treatments of discounted cash flow and discounted residual earnings valuation, ranging from analysis of historical performance and financial statements, including analysis of the quality and reliability of financial reports, to analyzing the structural, macroeconomic, and industry setting of the firm, to analyzing the firm's competitiveness, to building and testing pro forma statements, to calculating the cost of capital of various financing sources. The modeling of value is also extended by taking into account the value of strategic flexibility in the valuation of the firm. The course also deals with value-based management, covering both models for assessing corporate value creation, emphasizing economic value added and shareholder value added, and techniques for managing value, including operating improvements, growth initiatives, financial restructuring, and expansionary and contractionary asset restructuring.​

The focus of the course is on learning how to assess financial performance and value creation, value firms, and to manage firms for value creation. The centerpiece of the course is the discounted cash flow model for valuing firms and projects. The course provides rigorous treatments of discounted cash flow and discounted residual earnings valuation, ranging from analysis of historical performance and financial statements, including analysis of the quality and reliability of financial reports, to analyzing the structural, macroeconomic, and industry setting of the firm, to analyzing the firm's competitiveness, to building and testing pro forma statements, to calculating the cost of capital of various financing sources. The modeling of value is also extended by taking into account the value of strategic flexibility in the valuation of the firm. The course also deals with value-based management, covering both models for assessing corporate value creation, emphasizing economic value added and shareholder value added, and techniques for managing value, including operating improvements, growth initiatives, financial restructuring, and expansionary and contractionary asset restructuring.​

The focus of the course is on learning how to assess financial performance and value creation, value firms, and to manage firms for value creation. The centerpiece of the course is the discounted cash flow model for valuing firms and projects. The course provides rigorous treatments of discounted cash flow and discounted residual earnings valuation, ranging from analysis of historical performance and financial statements, including analysis of the quality and reliability of financial reports, to analyzing the structural, macroeconomic,