Course description
Valuing Technology Businesses
Three days of training on the principles of technology company valuation, valuing tech start-ups and valuing pre-IPO technology companies.
Technology businesses offer tremendous potential opportunities. Attend this course and be able to:
- Understand the differences between corporate & technology valuation and lifecycles and corporate cash flows
- Understand how to apply the DCF model to technology companies, and its limitations
- Evaluate the stable growth stage and calculating terminal value
- Understand the use of revenue and profit multiples in technology valuation
- Appreciate the importance of EBITDA and its limitations
- Explain the potential use of the real options approach and challenges in its application
- Critically review alternative valuation approaches including intrinsic, relative, probabilistic and real options
- Understand how to value start-up companies including the characteristics of young companies and sectors and a life cycle view of start-up companies
- Review the valuation of pre IPO companies, including the characteristics of growth company and sectors and the value of equity claims
Training Course Content
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TECHNOLOGY COMPANY VALUATION
- Introduction
- Overview of Valuation Approaches
- Other Valuation Issues
- Understanding the Challenge with Technology Companies
- Applying the DCF Model to Technology Company Valuation
- Using Multiples in Technology Company Valuation
- Using the Real Options Approach
VALUING START-UP TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
- Introduction
- Valuation of a Technology Start-Up Company
- CASE STUDY
Excel based valuation of a startup technology company based upon the trainer’s experience
VALUING PRE-IPO TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES
- Introduction
- Key Valuation Considerations
- Valuation in Practice
Expenses
The cost of this course is £2299 + VAT.
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IFF - International Faculty of Finance
Maple House 149, Tottenham Court Road
W1T 7AD London
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