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Business & Project Valuation

In our business valuation course, you’ll learn how to value a company using the DCF and multiples approach, and will learn to evaluate the financial feasibility of a new project.

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Course objectives

We’ll build a complete, working discounted cash flow (DCF) model in Excel from scratch, using a fictional private company. Our course will teach you how to calculate the cost of equity, WACC, and levered/unlevered beta.

With this knowledge, we’ll calculate the discounted free cash flow and the terminal value. From there, we’ll learn how to value a company using the multiples approach. We top off the course be learning how to analyze the financial viability of a new project using methods such as IRR, ROE, NPV, and break even.

At completion, you’ll know how to value any company and analyze the financial viability of a project.

Some key things you’ll learn:

  • Calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC)​
  • Calculate the cost of equity using the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)​
  • Determine the terminal value of a cash flow stream
  • Value a company using the DCF and multiples approach
  • Use IRR, ROE, and NPV to analyze a project

We recommend first taking our Financial Statement Analysis and Financial Modeling courses which are a great complement to this course.

Additional Info

Format: 3-6 minute videos, quizzes, and a final exam

CPEs: 5.5

Field of study: Finance

Prerequisites: You should have an intermediate knowledge of Excel (e.g. SUM, SUMIFS, VLOOKUP, etc.). If you’re not comfortable with Excel, we recommend taking our Microsoft Excel Bootcamp.

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Prior to Wisdify, Kelsey worked as a business technology strategy consultant for Forrester, a global research and advisory firm. While there, she acted as project manager for numerous research-based consulting projects.

Kelsey earned a BA in Economics and Mathematics from Wellesley College.

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Madison earned a BA in English from Brigham Young University.

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Prior to Wisdify, Maryn co-founded (along with Nate) BostonExcel, a Microsoft Excel training company that worked with dozens of companies in virtually every industry. Maryn’s clients included numerous Fortune 1000 companies, prestigious universities, startups and everything in between. She also happened to write and illustrate a children’s book. Let’s just say she’s a woman of many talents.

Maryn earned a BA in Economics from Wellesley College.

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