Francine Way

JULY 11, 2017

Access to credible sources of information such as SEC EDGAR database , Treasury.gov , OECD GDP Forecast , Mergent Online, S&P Capital IQ, Hoovers, ValueLine, Yahoo Finance , MarketWatch , and Damodaran Online. Inexpensive Excel-plugin simulator such as @RISK are available for download online.

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Francine Way

JUNE 22, 2020

It has been roughly three years since my last blog post at the completion of my fellowship. To pick up where we last left off with valuation, I will cover the topic of a Merger Relative Valuation in this blog post and move on to other non-valuation topics from here. Time certainly did fly by when one was having fun.

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Francine Way

JULY 12, 2017

Once the extraordinary, unusual, non-recurring items are identified, the next (2nd) step is to have them added back / removed from the historical income statement to normalize the financial statement. Expense items are added back and gain items are removed.

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Discounted Cash Flow Valuation M&A DCF 130

Francine Way

JULY 8, 2017

Regardless of the base reason(s), the current owners and management of a company looking for a new owner should seek to: Maximize return on investment for current owners. In an earlier M&A post, we have discussed how private companies’ accounting statements differ from public companies’.

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M&A Acquisitions Sale Investment 130