Corporate Valuation Methodologies – A Primer for Interview Preparation

The Finance Club and Career Centre invite you to attend a Corporate Valuation Training Workshop to be conducted by Training the Street.  The main goal of the seminar is to assist candidates seeking summer internships or employment in the City and in the field of finance. Through practical examples and exercises, the seminar illustrates the fundamentals of popular corporate valuation techniques used by finance practitioners. The seminar also discusses applications of key valuation concepts such as EBITDA, Enterprise Value, WACC, accretion / dilution and LBOs. The workshop will use a case study approach using the Kraft / Cadbury transaction to emphasis the topics that are to be discussed.

It is primarily targeted at the MIM2016 and Global MIM2017 Class.

This Corporate Valuation seminar is designed to be an essential foundation before finance related interviews and internships. In addition, TTS believes the content will benefit a wide variety of participants interested in:

•           Working in most areas of the financial services industry (investment banking, consulting, research, asset management, private equity, brokerage, sales & trading, insurance, etc.)
•           Working in the corporate or strategic development group or finance department of a corporation
•           Enhancing the learning experience in finance and financial statement analysis
•           Working in marketing, brand management or a non-finance field, but are interested in gaining a solid foundation in applied corporate finance in a condensed, practical manner

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this seminar as it is intended to provide a solid foundation of practical valuation methodologies. However, participants possessing prior accounting, financial statement analysis and corporate finance knowledge will benefit more from the content discussed.

Topics Covered

This Corporate Valuation is a full day of instruction, exercises and Q&A using the Kraft / Cadbury transaction to analyze the following topics that are to be covered:

•           Overview of valuation methodologies & key concepts
•           Public comparables analysis
•           Acquisition comparables analysis
•           Discounted cash flow analysis
•           Imputing valuation ranges
•           Introduction to merger consequences and leveraged buyout analyses
•           Sources of public information
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This course will not be Excel based. Laptops will not be required for this course. Each participant will need a calculator. This course contains up to 2 hours of pre-reading that should be completed prior to attending the workshop.”