37729 - Finance Laboratory

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Docente: Antonio Angelillo
  • Credits: 4
  • SSD: SECS-P/09
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Business Administration (cod. 0897)

Learning outcomes

The student can face the main topics in valuations, as the determination of the free cash flows, the company's cost of capital and the main multiples adopted. After analysing some some case of studies, he is able to understand how theory can be practically applied.

Course contents

company valuation and its main determinants

- cost of capital and its main risk determinants

- asset based and sum-of-the-parts valuation

- economic value added valuation

- discounted free cash flow

- business plan analysis and sensitivities

- relative valuation: transaction multiples and market multiples

- valuation case studies

Readings/Bibliography

The Dark side of Valuation - Aswath Damodaran

Damodaran on Valuation - Aswath Damodaran

Corporate Finance: an introduction to valuation - Mario Massari

Teaching methods

Mainly testing the class on real case studies

Team working

Assessment methods

Written exercise on valuation

Teaching tools

slides and real cases business plans

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Angelillo