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Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, Fourth Edition

Hailed by financial professionals worldwide as the single best guide of its kind, Valuation, Fourth Edition is thoroughly revised and expanded to reflect business conditions in today?s volatile global economy. Valuation?provides up-to-date insights and practical advice on how to create, manage, and measure an organization?s value. Along with all-new case studies that illustrate how valuation techniques and principles are applied in real-world situations, this comprehensive guide has been updated to reflect the events of the Internet bubble and its effect on stock markets, new developments in academic finance, changes in accounting rules (both U. S. and IFRS), and an enhanced global perspective. This edition contains the solid framework that managers at all levels, investors, and students have come to trust.  more

  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Sep-12-2009

Best Overall Valuation Book

The best foundational text on understanding valuation for any business. Kenneth H Marks, lead author of The Handbook of Financing Growth: Strategies, Capital Structure, and M&A Transactions (Wiley Finance)

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Mar-16-2009

comprehensive, academic

I work for one of the largest banks in the US, and we use this book as a reference when we need to dig into the more arcane details of a project. If you do a lot of valuation work, this is a recommended text, but it is tome-like and a bit laborious to use, and I've found much of the advice it...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Jan-02-2009

The bridge between management and finance

As a management consultant, this book bridges between management activities and financial performance.It makes sense of an organizations' day-to-day activities, from the investors'/organization owners' point of view.

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  • Posted: Oct-01-2008

Book should be retitled valuiing a company purely on the basis of its past cash flow

This is a good intro to give the basics of valuation for "old economy" businesses. It determines the valuation of companies based almost exclusively on their cash flow over the previous few years (i.e., 3, 5 and 7 year periods) to the analysis. Unfortunately it ignores (completely) too many...

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  • From: Amazon
  • Posted: Sep-30-2008

Valuation Review

The delivery took three times as long as Amazon promised and the book was damaged when I recieved it. Also, it was missing content (i.e. End of chapter questions.)

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  • Posted: Sep-30-2008

Excellent

This was the first time i purchased a book online. Transaction was simple and services were prompt.

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  • Posted: Jul-04-2008

Senior Manager at Accenture

The workbook force you to look at the information you received from "Valuation" from different perspective and you will recognize what you missed or misunderstood. Also, application of "Valuation" concepts in a controlled environment will make you confident that you are applying "Valation"...

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  • Posted: May-14-2008

The CD mentioned in the summary is disappointingly not included with this book....

The book itself is excellent and exactly what I was hoping for.Amazon Customer services assured me that the CD was included and even sent me a second copy but there was no CD again..... I thought it was too much of a bargain to be true...and it was !! I will scrutinise the summary more...

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  • Posted: May-11-2008

Good read but brush up on your math

I found this book to be a great read in learning about all the various aspects that go into the valuation of a company. It does a great job of making you look at what makes a company tick and how it affects a valuation.The base of the book is the DCF (Discounted Cash Flows) model. It describes...

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  • Posted: May-08-2008

Useless

People buy this book to evaluate companies and make investment decisions, don't they? If that's most of the readers' goal, this book is pretty much useless.The calculation of net present value (NPV) of companies is purely a concept, which sounds great but impossible to accurately capture...

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