From the Back Cover
The Ideal Companion to Valuation Fifth Edition To get the most out of Valuation, Fifth Edition, hone your knowledge and skills with the Valuation Workbook. This comprehensive study guide provides you with an invaluable opportunity to explore your understanding of the strategies and techniques covered in the main text, before putting it to work in real-world situations. From multi-business, real estate, and bank valuation to insurance company valuation, the Workbook includes top information on the ins and outs of valuing cyclical companies and real option pricing methods. This hands-on Workbook: Walks you through Valuation, Fifth Edition providing chapter-by-chapter coverage of the core text Tests your comprehension of the ideas presented throughout, with multiple-choice questions and problems that help you practice applying the principles from the book to real-world situations Offers complete coverage of forecasting short, medium, and continuing value; calculating and interpreting results; real option pricing methods; and much more
About the Author
McKinsey & Company is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past seven decades, the firms primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organizations most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management. Tim Koller is a partner in McKinseys New York office. Tim has served clients in North America and Europe on corporate strategy and issues concerning capital markets, M&A transactions, and value-based management. He leads the firms research activities in valuation and capital markets issues. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago. Marc Goedhart is an associate principal in McKinseys Amsterdam office. Marc has served clients across Europe on portfolio restructuring, issues concerning capital markets, and M&A transactions. He received a PhD in finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam. David Wessels is an adjunct professor of finance and director of executive education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Named by BusinessWeek as one of Americas top business school instructors, he teaches corporate valuation at the MBA and Executive MBA levels. David received his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles. Erik Benrud is a clinical full professor of finance and the CFA Review Coordinator and Advisor at Drexel University. His research has appeared in many peer-reviewed journals, and he has won teaching and research awards from Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited universities. He consults and has delivered seminars on finance around the world. Erik received his PhD from the University of Virginia where he also taught finance.