Capital Budgeting
Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
Valuation Using Multiples
Residual Income Valuation
Sensitivity Analysis and Simulation
Event Studies
Decision Trees and Real Options
Prerequisites
Capital Market Theory (recommended)
Teaching methods
In class the following teaching methods are used:
Interactive development of main results
Discussions of major economic implications
Analysis of spread sheet based applications
Theories
This course applies the following theories:
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Valuation
Residual Income (RI) Valuation
Monte Carlo Simulation
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT)
Risk-Neutral Valuation
Option Pricing Theory
Event Study Metodology
Valuation Multiples
Literature
Grinblatt, Mark and Titman, Sheridan (2002): "Financial markets and corporate strategy", 2nd ed. - internat. ed., Boston, McGraw-Hill.
Brealey, Richard A., Stewart C. Myers and Franklin Allen (2008): "Principles of Corporate Finance", 9th ed. - internat. ed., Boston, McGraw-Hill.
Kruschwitz, Lutz and Löffler, Andreas (2007): "Discounted cash flow: A Theory of the Valuation of Firms", Chichester, Wiley.
Berk, Jonathan B., and DeMarzo, Peter (2007): "Corporate Finance", internat. ed., Boston, Pearson Education
Further literature
Ruback, R. S., 2002. Capital cash flows: a simple approach to valuing risky cash flows. Financial Management 31, p. 85-103.