Exploring Business Valuation Fundamentals (2 hours - late morning) - NEW! - Webcast
Overview
What makes a business valuable? Who determines value? What are the key factors that make businesses valuable? In this course, we explore the different ways to value a business. We will apply foundational valuation and corporate finance concepts to real world examples in an effort to see what makes up an investment’s price.
OSCPA has partnered with the Washington Society of CPAs for this event.
Highlights
- What does value mean?
- Technical vs. fundamental analysis
- Intrinsic value
- Other discounted cash flow models
- Assumptions in the Gordon Growth Model
- Valuations using free cash flows
- Residual income model
- Enterprise value
- Value in mergers and acquisitions
- Small business valuations and discounts
- Advanced valuation models
Designed For
Accounting and finance professionals who want to understand the concepts and theories behind business valuation techniques
Objectives
- Describe the factors affecting the value of a business
- Compare and contrast market value, investment value, bankruptcy value, and going concern value
- List the key differences between technical and fundamental analysis
- Calculate intrinsic value using discounted cash flow methods, such as the GGM and the H-Model
- Calculate intrinsic value using free cash flow
- Calculate the gains and losses to the buyer/seller in a merger/acquisition
- List key discounts when valuing privately held companies
Leader(s):
Leader Bios
Joel DiCicco, Surgent CPE
Dr. Joel DiCicco is a CPA with over 35 years of practitioner experience in finance, taxation, and accounting. For approximately 20 years, Joel worked for the IRS with increasing responsibility, leading to his position as territory manager for Financial Products. In this role, he worked and supervised the most complex and sophisticated tax structuring and valuation issues. He also served on details as territory manager for both Global High Wealth and Large Business Employment Taxes. Dr. DiCicco has been a faculty member at Florida Atlantic University for more than 15 years, and he is now a full-time senior instructor for the graduate executive programs, where he lectures in the areas of accounting, finance, and taxation. Joel serves on the Florida Institute of CPA’s Editorial Committee for CPA Today and the Accounting Principles and Auditing Standards Committee. In addition to his PhD from Florida Atlantic University in public administration focusing on budgeting and finance, Joel has both a MS in taxation from Florida International University and an MBA in finance from Manhattan College. He is credentialed in valuation, forensics, and management accounting.
Non-Member Price $140.00
Member Price $105.00