Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies (Frontiers in Finance Series)

A step-by-step guide to valuing companies, including financial institutions, conglomerates, and international and multinational businesses. Shows how to assess major transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and share purchases. Provides practical valuation frameworks, supported by case studies, and discusses how to incorporate valuation into corporate strategy.

Hailed by financial professionals worldwide as the single best guide of its kind, Valuation provides crucial insights into how to measure, manage, and maximize a company's value. This long-awaited Third Edition has been comprehensively updated and expanded to reflect business conditions in today's volatile global economy and to provide highly effective ways for managers at every level to create value for their companies.

In addition to all new case studies, Valuation now includes in-depth coverage on valuing dot.coms, cyclical companies, and companies in emerging markets, along with detailed instructions on how to drive value creation and apply real options to corporate valuation. Here is expert guidance that management and investment professionals and students alike have come to trust, including:

• Valuation's acclaimed chapter devoted to insights into the strategic advantages of value-based management
• Strategies for multibusiness valuation, and valuation for corporate restructuring, mergers, and acquisitions
• International comparisons of the cost of capital, differences in accounting procedures, and how valuation works in different countries
• Detailed, actual case studies showing how valuation techniques and principles are applied

This timeless, respected book on valuation allows you to face the crossroads where corporate strategy and finance meet with more confidence and winning strategies than ever before.

McKinsey & Company, inc. is an international top management consulting firm. Founded in 1926, McKinsey & Company, Inc. advises leading companies around the world on issues of strategy, organization, and operations, and in specialized areas such as finance, information technology and the Internet, research and development, sales, marketing, manufacturing, and distribution.

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