Company valuation and Investment banking and brokerage Guide - Finance Review

Capital.com
Marketplace of financial sources competing to provide debt, equity, and business loans for acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, working capital, and accounts receivable financing.
 
PPC's Business Valuation Specialist
A tool that provides small- and medium-sized businesses with a comprehensive valuation report.
 
Aswath Damadoran: The Corporate Finance Objective (pdf)
A detailed discussion of the objective in corporate finance, namely the often conflicting goals of maximizing firm and shareholder value (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
 
Common Errors in Business Valuation Reports
Provides analyses methods used to arrive at fair market value in transfer of wealth and estate tax returns.
 
White Nagle Mazza & Associates
Consulting group that provides business valuation, profit counseling, value engineering, and sale and divestiture counseling to business enterprises.
 
BIZStrat Strategic Management: Financial Analysis Ratios
Provides examples and explanations of profit, liquidity, activity, leverage, and shareholder-return ratios.
 
New online business e-valuation tools: Useful, but you still need the human touch
June 2000 article by Jay MacDonald at Bankrate.com.
 
Formula Sheet
Professor Puneet Handa at the University of Iowa's business school offers a MS Word document with finance formulas.
 
Aswath Damadoran: Opportunity Costs and Measuring Investment Returns (pdf)
Analysis of critical issues when determining investment returns, including correctly accounting for opportunity costs.
 
Biz/ed: Financial Ratios
Provides an overview of profitability, short-term and long-term liquidity ratios.
 
National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts
Provider of business valuation software, Valuation Master 6.0, for a fee.
 
Arrow Business Appraisers: Business Valuations
Offers summary and certified appraisals for acquisitions, buy-outs, divorce, gift and estate taxes. Sample report available.
 
CPA Journal: Fair Market Value of Closely Held Business Interests
An article in the May, 2000 issue.
 
Stochastic Calculus and Finance
Paper that covers financial calculus and differential equations, binomial and arbitrage pricing, CAPM and APT and applications for pricing options, interest rate derivatives and term structure.
 
Aswath Damadoran: Hurdle Rates and Risk Premia (pdf)
An in-depth discussion of the calculation of hurdle rates, risk premia, beta, and alpha used in firm valuation (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
 
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