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Overview
Unlock the skills to confidently value companies and build robust financial models. This highly practical, two-day course covers the full spectrum of valuation methods, including discounted cash flow (DCF), discount rate calculations, and multiples analysis.
Through hands-on Excel exercises and real-world case studies, you’ll learn to derive enterprise and equity values, apply comparables, and adjust for market realities. Perfect for professionals seeking to strengthen their technical expertise in valuation and modelling.
What will you learn?
By the end of this Valuation Techniques (with Valuation Modelling) course at BPP University, you will be able to:
- Explain the meaning of “value” in the context of a company and how it relates to its share price
- Apply the principles of company valuation to derive both enterprise and equity values
- Use discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques, including free cash flow calculations, taxation, interest treatment, and terminal value estimation
- Understand and calculate discount rates for use in company valuation (cost of equity, cost of debt and the WACC)
- Understand when adjustments are required to the discount rate in specific circumstances
- Identify and apply appropriate multiples, using the PER, EV and sales multiples
- Source and adjust multiples through comparables analysis (CompAcs and CompCos)
- Apply the valuation framework to practical modelling case studies in Excel
Programme Structure
This course will cover:- What is meant by the ‘value’ of a company
- Company valuation and derivation of share price
- Enterprise and equity values
- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
- Deriving pro forma free cash flow to enterprise (FCF)
- Treatment of taxation and interest
- Terminal value calculations
- Company values and share prices
- Discount Rates
- The cost of equity (ke) and CAPM
- The cost of debt (kd)
- Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
- Identifying an appropriate discount rate
- Comparables analysis
- Using multiples as valuation tools
- Common adjustments to multiples
- Sources of multiples – CompAcs and CompCos
- Price/earnings ratios, EV/EBIT, EV/EBITDA multiples
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 2 days
- Part-time
- 2 days
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
On Campus, Online
Campus Location
- London, United Kingdom
Disciplines
Finance View 132 other Short Courses in Finance in United KingdomWhat students do after studying
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Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
Who is the course for?
- This course will be of benefit to anyone who needs to understand and apply valuation techniques, including equity analysts and fund managers, corporate finance professionals, accountants and business development/M&A executives.
- Important - course pre-requisite: This course requires a formal professional background in finance (ie accounting).
- You should either be a qualified accountant or hold an undergraduate or postgraduate degree with significant accounting content (please note MBAs are generally not acceptable for this purpose).
Tuition Fees
Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.
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International Applies to you
Applies to youNon-residents1794 GBP / full≈ 1794 GBP / full -
Domestic Applies to you
Applies to youCitizens or residents1794 GBP / full≈ 1794 GBP / full
Living costs
London
United Kingdom
1137 - 2157 GBP / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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