Corporate Finance and Valuations Certification

4th, 5th and 6th August
7 pm to 10 pm

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About the Course

Do you know the common thread connecting roles like Investment Banking, Equity Research, Valuations, Financial Due Diligence, Valuations, M&A and many other Finance roles? It’s Corporate Finance and Valuations. Whether you’re deciding on the viability of a new factory, making stock recommendations or evaluating a merger, you need to to the principles and methods of the closely related 2 fields – Corporate Finance and Valuations.

In your internship you will be preparing an investment pitch deck for presentation to potential investors. You will act as a team of sell-side analysts for your client. You will be carrying out financial statements analysis and financial modelling as a part of this. You can do this even with your regular corporate job

Your Mentor will be CA Yugantar Gupta. He has taught Corporate Finance to 1000+ CAs and other Finance Professionals

Facing issues? Email us at support@thecorporateinstitute.com

Which Roles is this Course for?

Investment Banking
Equity Research
Valuations
Financial Due Diligence
Finance Manager/Management Trainee Roles in Industry
Mergers and Acquisitions

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3 Kinds of Decisions & Basic Rules
Investment Decision Basics
1. Risk and Return
2. Hurdle Rates and Cash Flows
3. Why use WACC
4. Introducing CAPM
5. Why CAPM is the best
Risk free Rate
1. Germany vs Italy
2. 10 year vs 30 year
3. Real vs nominal
Equity Risk Premium
1. Market Return
2. Historical vs Implied ERP
3. Which Market?
Beta
1. Regression Beta
2. Discretionary vs Non Discretionary Product
3. Operating Leverage and Financial Leverage – Levered and unlevered betas
4. Bottom Up beta – Weighted Average of Industry Betas
Cost of Debt
1. Why Interest Rate shouldn’t be used
2. Order of Preference – YTM, Credit Rating, Others
3. Other instruments – Preference Shares, Convertible Debentures etc.
WACC
1. Using correct weight – Book/Market Value
Cashflows
1. Relevant Costs and Relevant Revenue
2. Cashflow from Project – Operating Income, Depreciation, Working Capital, Capex (link with component accounting)
3. Return on Investment using IRR
4. Discounting – NPV vs IRR
5. Terminal Growth Rate
6. Return on Equity vs Cost of Capital
Financing Decision
1. Debt, Equity and Hybrids
2. MM Model and its flaws
3. Minimising Cost of Capital – Scenario Analysis
4. Determinants of Debt
  1. Tax
  2. Operating Risk
5. Which Debt
  1. Duration
  2. Fixed or floating
  3. Currency
Dividend Decision
1. What to do with surplus
2. Buybacks
3. Taxes
4. Level of Surplus Cash and investment opportunities
FCFF and FCFE
Overview of Remaining topics
1. Working Capital – Inventory, Receivables and Payables
2. Costing – Marginal, Standard etc.
3. Option Pricing
4. Forex
5. Ratio Analysis
6. Variance Analysis
7. Covering tough interview questions
8. Residual Doubts