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| USBX Online investment bank providing business valuations and advisory services. Features include marketplace for buying and selling small-to-medium sized businesses, free valuation tool, M&A legal forms and industry research.
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Aswath Damadoran: Value of a Brand Name (pdf) Discussion of the value of a corporate brand name, and the relation to overall firm value (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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Aswath Damadoran: Warrants and Equity Shares in Company Valuation (pdf) Accounting for warrants and equity shares when valuing a firm (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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Arrow Business Appraisers: Business Valuations Offers summary and certified appraisals for acquisitions, buy-outs, divorce, gift and estate taxes. Sample report available.
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Aswath Damadoran: Models of Risk and Return Discussion of models for valuing a firm, including: the capital asset pricing model, and multi-factor models.
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Valuing Your Company Discusses various methods for valuing a business from capitalized earning approach to valuation of intangible assets.
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Diomo Corporation: Business Valuation Techniques Provides a detailed guide and personalized consulting on buying a business, including valuation, financing the purchase, and negotiating strategies.
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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.
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Business Valuation Research Institute Links to relevant business valuation web sites, a database of businesses recently bought and sold, and a chat room. Registration required.
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C&S Associates Business Valuation Report For a $20 fee, the firm allows users to access its business valuation tool.
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Formula Sheet Professor Puneet Handa at the University of Iowa's business school offers a MS Word document with finance formulas.
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Aswath Damadoran: Value of a Brand Name Discussion of the value of a corporate brand name, and the relation to overall firm value.
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PPC's Business Valuation Specialist A tool that provides small- and medium-sized businesses with a comprehensive valuation report.
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Business Book Press: Business Valuation Techniques MS Excel-based program for business buyers and sellers to determine the fair-market value of a business without complicated theory and mathematics.
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Valuer Valuation tool that uses cash-flow analysis and macroeconomic variables to compute the value of a business.
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BIZStrat Strategic Management: Financial Analysis Ratios Provides examples and explanations of profit, liquidity, activity, leverage, and shareholder-return ratios.
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Biz/ed: Financial Ratios Provides an overview of profitability, short-term and long-term liquidity ratios.
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Aswath Damadoran: Spreadsheet for Valuing Synergy in a Merger A spreadsheet designed to help an analyst value the synergystic cost savings and expected additional revenue of a merger.
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CPA Journal: Fair Market Value of Closely Held Business Interests An article in the May, 2000 issue.
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New online business e-valuation tools: Useful, but you still need the human touch June 2000 article by Jay MacDonald at Bankrate.com.
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing the Option to Expand A spreadsheet useful in determining the value of expanding via a project or acquisition.
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MBAWare.com: Business Valuation Techniques Offers business valuation software to automate the valuation process, statistics for accurate valuation assumptions and books on valuation theory.
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PrivateCo.com Online valuation advisory service for small- to medium-sized businesses. Offers valuation tools, sales and cash-flow forecasting, along with industry comparisons.
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Improving Decision Making with Simple Break-Even Analysis Article discussing how to use break-even analysis.
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Valuing Shares of a Closely Held Corporation An article provided by Business Valuation Services.
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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).
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BIZCOMPS Provides a database searchable by SIC code to find comparable sales transactions to establish an estimated value of a business.
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing Cash in a Firm (pdf) A discussion of the process for valuing the cash component of a firm's balance sheet (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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The Conference Board of Canada: Financial Statement Analysis Online tutorial workbook titled Business Basics for the Workplace explains the basics of financial statement analysis.
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National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts Provider of business valuation software, Valuation Master 6.0, for a fee.
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Capital.com Marketplace of financial sources competing to provide debt, equity, and business loans for acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, working capital, and accounts receivable financing.
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing Amazon.com (pdf) An approach to valuing high growth firms, especially internet companies, using Amazon.com as an example (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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Business Owner's Toolkit: Financial Ratios A list of financial ratios, how they are calculated and how it measures a business's financial health.
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Business Book Press: Valuing A Business For Sale And Other Issues Provides issues to consider when valuing a business.
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Business ValueXpress: Business Valuation Techniques Offers M&A software for creating live, interactive business valuation simulations, with integrated price, deal terms, and deal structure details.
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing Private Firms and Divisions (pdf) Valuation models, deciding factors, and estimation parameters for valuing private firms and divisions of corporations (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing the Option to Delay A spreadsheet useful in determining the value of delaying a project or acquisition.
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What’s My Company Worth? A Case Study An article by Business Valuation Services.
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Aswath Damadoran: Basics of Firm Valuation (pdf) A discussion of various methods for valuing a firm (pdf version, Adobe Acrobat required).
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White Nagle Mazza & Associates Consulting group that provides business valuation, profit counseling, value engineering, and sale and divestiture counseling to business enterprises.
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CFO.com Mergers & Acquisitions News, analysis and valuation tools for mergers and acquistions.
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ValuationResources.com Business valuation resources including valuation publications, industry resources, economic data, public company information, mergers and acquisitions data, legal and tax resources, and more.
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Valuing A Family Business An article provided by Business Valuation Services.
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Aswath Damadoran: Measuring Investment Returns (pdf) A discussion of the process of measuring investment returns from projects or acquisitions (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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MoneySoft: Corporate Valuation Maker of a corporate valuation tool that guides users through the process of analyzing and valuing a closely held company.
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Aswath Damadoran: Corporate Finance Big Picture (pdf) A schematic outlining the investment, financing, and dividend decisions facing an analyst in defining firm value (pdf version, requires Adobe Acrobat).
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Aswath Damadoran: Opportunity Costs and Measuring Investment Returns (pdf) Analysis of critical issues when determining investment returns, including correctly accounting for opportunity costs.
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Aswath Damadoran: Valuing Private Firms and Divisions Valuation models, deciding factors, and estimation parameters for valuing private firms and divisions of corporations.
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Aswath Damadoran: Estimating Capital Asset Pricing Model Values A spreadsheet for determining the input values for the capital asset pricing model. Useful in determining firm value, and thereby imputing equity value.
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Strategic Valuation Associates: Business Valuation Technique Provides financial services including business valuation, business plan and financial model development, and assessment of strategic opportunities.
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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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Business Owner's Toolkit: Business Ratios Explanations on liquidity, efficiency, profitability, and solvency ratios.
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Capital.com Business Valuation Tool Customized input capabilities and detailed cash flow, fair market and comparitive analysis.
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Common Errors in Business Valuation Reports Provides analyses methods used to arrive at fair market value in transfer of wealth and estate tax returns.
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Finding the Value of a Family-Limited Partnership An article provided by Business Valuation Services.
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