Warren Buffett is one of the best investors of all time. But what is his strategy? Buffett's 2-Step Stock Market Strategy breaks down Buffett's 2-step strategy and compiles his best investing principles so that you can replicate his strategy when you invest in stocks.

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McKinsey & Company's bestselling guide to teaching corporate valuation - the fully updated seventh edition

Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies, University Edition is filled with the expert guidance from McKinsey & Company that students and professors have come to rely on for over nearly three decades. Now in its seventh edition, this acclaimed volume continues to help financial professionals and students around the world gain a deep understanding of valuation and help their companies create, manage, and maximize economic value for their shareholders.

This latest edition has been carefully revised and updated throughout, and includes new insights on topics such as digital, ESG (environmental, social and governance), and long-term investing, as well as fresh case studies. For thirty years, Valuation has remained true to its basic principles and continues to offer a step-by-step approach to teaching valuation fundamentals, including:

• Analyzing historical performance
• Forecasting performance
• Estimating the cost of capital
• Interpreting the results of a valuation in context
• Linking a company's valuation multiples to core performance drivers

The University Edition contains end-of-chapter review questions to help students master key concepts from the book.

Wiley also offers an Online Instructor's Manual with a full suite of learning resources to complement valuation classroom instruction.

Guide to making accurate business valuations based on investing metrics that matter

In The Little Book of Valuation: How to Value a Company, Pick a Stock, and Profit, professor and economist Aswath Damodaran guides readers through the fundamentals and step-by-step process of picking winning companies to invest in. In the book, you'll learn how to make your own accurate valuation assessments, avoiding common pitfalls and mistakes along the way.

From widespread misunderstandings to undeniable truths in valuation, the author covers exactly where to turn your attention to when assessing a company's value based on a myriad of factors, with stories and real examples included throughout to prepare you for any modern investing challenge you may find yourself facing. You'll also learn:

• Simple but extremely effective valuation tools and formulas for success
• The complex relationship between assets, debt, equity, and business value
• Special market considerations regarding valuation that require a dynamic approach

Rather than relying on third-party sources--often drawing from the same public information that you have access to, but getting it wrong--The Little Book of Valuation, Updated Edition gives readers all the insight and practical tools they need to cut through the noise and arrive at their own accurate valuations, pick profitable stocks, and establish successful long-term portfolios.

Throughout his storied career, Aswath Damodaran has searched for the universal key to demystify corporate finance and valuation. Now, at last, he offers the groundbreaking answer to readers everywhere.

It turns out there is a corporate lifecycle very much like our own -- with unique stages of growth and decline. And just as we must learn to act our age, so too must companies.

By better understanding how corporations age and the characteristics of each stage of their lifecycle, we can unlock the secrets behind any businesses behavior and optimize our management and investment decisions accordingly.

In Aswath Damodaran's The Corporate Life Cycle, readers will learn--

• What markers tell where a company falls on its corporate lifecycle, and crucial insights for managers as they navigate the different stages
• Why the shape and timing of life cycles varies across different industries
• When transition points pose special challenges to companies--and strategies to conquer them
• How differences in investment philosophies, in particular the divide between growth and value investing, should lead investors towards companies at different lifecycle stages

How can a company that has never turned a profit have a multibillion dollar valuation? Why do some start-ups attract large investments while others do not? Aswath Damodaran, finance professor and experienced investor, argues that the power of story drives corporate value, adding substance to numbers and persuading even cautious investors to take risks. In business, there are the storytellers who spin compelling narratives and the number-crunchers who construct meaningful models and accounts. Both are essential to success, but only by combining the two, Damodaran argues, can a business deliver and sustain value.

Through a range of case studies, Narrative and Numbers describes how storytellers can better incorporate and narrate numbers and how number-crunchers can calculate more imaginative models that withstand scrutiny. Damodaran considers Uber's debut and how narrative is key to understanding different valuations. He investigates why Twitter and Facebook were valued in the billions of dollars at their public offerings, and why one (Twitter) has stagnated while the other (Facebook) has grown. Damodaran also looks at more established business models such as Apple and Amazon to demonstrate how a company's history can both enrich and constrain its narrative. And through Vale, a global Brazil-based mining company, he shows the influence of external narrative, and how country, commodity, and currency can shape a company's story. Narrative and Numbers reveals the benefits, challenges, and pitfalls of weaving narratives around numbers and how one can best test a story's plausibility.

Updated edition of the definitive guide to investment valuation tools and techniques

Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset delves into valuation techniques for a variety of different asset classes, including real options, start-up firms, unconventional assets, distressed companies and private equity, real estate, and many more, and explains how to choose the right model for any given asset valuation scenario. The models are presented with real-world examples so as to capture some of the problems inherent in applying these models, with discussion of differences and common elements between the models to provide readers with a holistic understanding of the subject matter.

Written by a professor of finance who is widely regarded as one of the best educators and thinkers on the topic of investment valuation, this newly revised and updated Fourth Edition explores topics including:

• Understanding financial statements, the basics of risk, and tests and evidence for market efficiency
• Estimating risk parameters and costs of financing, terminal value, and equity value per share
• Using scenario analysis, decision trees, and simulations for probabilistic approaches in valuation

Investment Valuation: Tools and Techniques for Determining the Value of Any Asset is an essential resource for all investors and students of financial markets seeking an all-in-one guide to expand their valuation knowledge and make better investment decisions.

A vital companion to the bestselling guide to corporate valuation Valuation Workbook, 7th Edition is the ideal companion to McKinsey's Valuation, helping you get a handle on difficult concepts and calculations before using them in the real world. This workbook reviews all things valuation, with chapter-by-chapter summaries and comprehensive questions and answers that allow you to test your knowledge and skills. Useful both in the classroom and for self-study, this must-have guide is essential for reviewing and applying the renowned McKinsey & Company approach to valuation and reinforces the major topics discussed in detail in the book. Fully updated to align with the latest edition of Valuation, this workbook is an invaluable learning tool for students and professionals alike and an essential part of the McKinsey Valuation suite.

Valuation is at the heart of any investment decision, whether that decision is buy, sell or hold. But the pricing of many assets has become a more complex task in modern markets, especially after the recent financial crisis. In order to be successful at this endeavor, you must have a firm understanding of the proper valuation techniques. One valuation book stands out as withstanding the test of time among students of financial markets and investors, Aswath Damodaran'sInvestment Valuation.

Now completely revised and updated to reflect changing market conditions, this third edition comprehensively introduces students and investment professionals to the range of valuation models available and how to chose the right model for any given asset valuation scenario. This edition includes valuation techniques for a whole host of real options, start-up firms, unconventional assets, distressed companies and private equity, and real estate. All examples have been updated and new material has been added.

• An expansion of ancillaries include updated online databases, spreadsheets, and other educational support tools
• Fully revised to incorporate valuation lessons learned from the last five years, from the market crisis and emerging markets to new types of equity investments
• Revised examples of company valuations such as companies from Eastern Europe and Africa, which stress the global nature of modern valuation
• Author Aswath Damodaran is regarded as one of the best educators and thinkers on the topic of investment valuation

This indispensable guide is a must read for students wishing to gain a better understanding of investment valuation and its methods. With it, you can take the insights and advice of a recognized authority on the valuation process and immediately put them to work for you.

Valuing money-making companies that have long histories and established business models is straightforward. It is when you encounter difficult-to-value companies that you feel the urge to go over to the dark side of valuation--where you abandon first principles and create new metrics. Aswath Damodaran looks at a range of these companies, from start-ups in new businesses to distressed companies, from banks facing regulatory turmoil to commodity firms, and from emerging market upstarts to multinationals that spread across geographies and businesses. With each grouping, he helps you examine the call of the dark side and its practices and frameworks to value these firms.

To answer these questions, Aswath looks at companies across the life cycle and in different markets, from Uber and Shake Shack at one end of the spectrum to Vale, Royal Dutch, and United Technologies at the other end.

In the process, you learn how to

• Deal with abnormally low and negative risk-free rates in valuation
• Adapt to dynamic and changing risk premiums
• Value young companies that are disrupting existing businesses
• Analyze commodity and cyclical companies across cycles
• Value a company as the sum of its parts or as an aggregation of its users/subscribers and customers
• Determine the difference between pricing and valuation, and why some investments can only be priced

Accurately analyze and appraise any business with the most trusted guide to valuation

Originally published more than 40 years ago, Valuing a Business set the standard for excellence in the appraisal field and is the world's most respected valuation reference.

This edition reflects the substantial advances in the tools and sophistication in business valuation, as well as new appraisal standards and regulations that have evolved since it was last published in 2008. These advances fall broadly into three categories:

• Increasing consensus among the valuation professional organizations on standards, methodology, and terminology
• Updated appraisal rules, regulations, standards and guidance issued by governmental, or quasigovernmental, and professional bodies
• Major advances in the quantity, quality, and accessibility of empirical data available to support business valuation conclusions

This landmark resource is a complete one-stop compendium of information on the full range of valuation concepts and methods.

If you are a professional services provider, your goal is to do transformative work for clients you love working with and get paid commensurate with the value you deliver to those clients. While negative mindsets can inhibit your growth, adopting a different mindset, the Generosity Mindset, can replace those self-limiting beliefs. The Generosity Mindset enables you to diagnose and communicate the value you deliver to clients and, in turn, more effectively price to receive a portion of that value.

Whether you're a consultant, coach, marketing or branding professional, business advisor, attorney, CPA, or work in virtually any other professional services discipline, your content and technical expertise are not proprietary. What's unique, though, is your experience and how you synthesize and deliver your knowledge. What's special is your demeanor or the way you deal with your best-fit clients. What's invaluable is how you deliver great value by guiding people through massive changes in their personal lives and in their businesses that bring them to a place they never thought possible.

The combination of all these elements is quite different for you compared to any other service provider in your industry. Therein lies your value, but it's not the value you see. It's the value your best-fit customers see in you.

If pricing your value feels uncomfortable or unfamiliar to you, this book will teach you why putting a price on the value your clients perceive and identify serves both them and you, and you'll learn the factors involved in getting your price right.

Investors lose their potential fortunes in the stock market because of wrong selling. Understanding this is critical.

You might have wondered why brokers make more 'Buy' recommendations than 'Sell' recommendations. Because Selling in the stock market is riskier, hard, requires strategy, and is an art.

But you are going to realize real profits only when you sell successfully. Until then, it's just paper gains, subject to the market's unpredictable ups and downs.

That's why knowing when and why to sell is essential. A misstep can be costly in two ways:

1. You might sell and exit a wonderful company too soon, missing out on compounding returns and wealth-building potential.
2. You risk holding (not selling) onto mediocre companies, which could cost you valuable capital, time, and opportunity.

This book is your roadmap to mastering the sell strategies in the stock market. Inside, you'll learn how to:

1. Identify and bust common myths about selling.
2. Break free from emotional biases and develop a resilient investor mindset.
3. Craft your personal 'why' and 'when' to sell to take effective decisions.
4. Confidently take profits using a set of holistic, time-tested selling rules.

Empower yourself with the strategies to secure profits on your path to lasting wealth. Selling is the ultimate skill every investor must master.

Remember:
Selling is riskier than buying, but those who understand it build enduring wealth in the stock market.

A complete toolkit for financial valuators to help keep their engagements on-track and on-time

In the newly revised fifth edition of Financial Valuation Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master Financial Valuation, veteran valuation expert James R. Hitchner delivers a comprehensive collection of checklists, reports, information request templates, and other tools designed to assist valuation practitioners in the organization of their engagements. In the book, you'll find intuitively organized materials that cut the learning curve for newly minted valuation professionals in half.

The tools contained within follow the standard valuation engagement format and track the intricacies of the typical valuation assignment. Over 300 exercises--organized by major subject--are included to assist with the learning process. You'll also find:

• Updated sections on S-corps, discounts for lack of marketability, and cost of capital resources and applications
• Report writing aids, discussions of individual vs. corporate tax rates, and guides for engaging in depositions and trials as an expert witness
• Materials designed to assist with the difference between capitalized cash flow and discounted cash flow methods

Perfect for business valuation analysts and expert witnesses, Certified Public Accountants, and appraisers, the Financial Valuation Workbook will also be an indispensable resource for attorneys working with financial valuation experts as they aim to keep their engagements on-track, on-time, and on-budget.

[Note: eBook version of latest edition now available; see Amazon author page for details.] This pocket-sized book is aimed at students in their first finance class at the undergraduate, MBA, or executive education level. The class is usually called Business Finance or Financial Management. (A list of topics covered appears below.) The author's goals are to help you master the material and to lift your grades. He approaches these goals from two different angles. First, he uses 25 years of experience teaching this material to explain carefully the stumbling blocks that have consistently tripped up students year after year. Addressing these common sources of confusion gives every student every opportunity to master the material. Second, he presents safe strategies he has developed to help you solve numerical problems in finance. Although these strategies take only an extra minute to implement, they frame each numerical problem so as to increase the likelihood that you detect and fix any errors, while reducing the likelihood that you make any errors in the first place. These techniques also increase the likelihood that you earn partial credit. Note that because the author focuses on stumbling blocks, he necessarily skips over some simpler material that does not usually cause problems. As such, he does not cover the fine detail of every topic in the class. Similarly, he gives only enough worked examples to explain concepts and techniques. Different students have different needs. For example, you might have no real interest in finance, but you need to pass the class to get your degree. Alternatively, you might be a gung-ho finance major who wants to ace the class, or an MBA or exec-ed student who does not care about grades and just wants to master the material. Prof. Crack has been meeting different needs in the classroom for 25 years, and his presentation is pitched simultaneously at these different clienteles. Although this book is aimed primarily at students, the fact that Prof. Crack focuses on essential knowledge and techniques also makes this book useful to instructors. For example, an instructor who is new to the class can use this book to quickly improve his or her understanding and teaching of the trickiest parts. The chapters of the book are as follows: Foundations, Financial Statements, TVMI (One Cash Flow), TVM II (Multiple Cash Flows), Inflation and Indices, Bonds and Interest Rates, Equities and Dividend Discount Models, Capital Budgeting I (Decision Rules), Capital Budgeting II (Cash Flows), Capital Budgeting III (Cost of Capital), Capital Budgeting IV (A Paradox), The CAPM and Interest Rates, Risk and Return, Market Efficiency, Capital Structure, and Dividends.

A comprehensive guide to the theory and application of valuation, along with useful models, tools, and tips for analysts

Financial Valuation: Applications and Models provides authoritative reference and practical guidance on the appropriate, defensible way to prepare and present business valuations. With contributions by 30 top experts in the field, this updated edition provides an essential resource for those seeking the most up-to-date methods, with a strong emphasis on applications and models. Coverage includes the latest approaches to the valuation of closely held businesses, nonpublic entities, intangibles, and other assets, with comprehensive discussion on valuation theory, a consensus view on application, and the tools to make it happen.

This 5th edition has been revised throughout, introducing new and extended coverage of essential topics like: S Corps, discounts for lack of marketability, cost of capital resources, cash flow methods, depositions and trials, and more. Packed with examples, checklists, and models to help navigate valuation projects, this book is an excellent practical tool for working professionals. It also provides hundreds of expert tips and best practices in clear, easy-to-follow language. The companion website provides access to extensive appendix materials, and the perspectives of valuation thought leaders add critical insight.

• Learn the art and science of estimating the value of businesses, including closely held businesses and nonpublic entities
• Determine the monetary value of intangible assets like goodwill, intellectual property, and brand recognition
• Update your knowledge with the latest valuation methods, approaches, and tools
• Use checklists, templates, models, and examples to make your valuations easier

Business valuation analysts, CPAs, appraisers, and attorneys--as well as anyone aspiring to those careers--will appreciate the comprehensive theory and thorough practical guidance in Financial Valuation: Applications and Models.

Get a handle on one of the most powerful forces in the world today with this straightforward, no-jargon guide to corporate finance

A firm grasp of the fundamentals of corporate finance can help explain and predict the behavior of businesses and businesspeople. And, with the right help from us, it's not that hard to learn!

In Corporate Finance For Dummies, an expert finance professor with experience in everything from small business to large, public corporations walks you through the basics of the subject. You'll find out how to read corporate financial statements, manage risks and investments, understand mergers and acquisitions, and value corporate assets.

In this book, you will also:

• Get a plain-English introduction to the financial concepts, instruments, definitions, and strategies that govern corporate finance
• Learn how to value a wide variety of instruments, from physical assets to intangible property, bonds, equities, and derivatives
• Explore the intricacies of financial statements, including the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flows

Perfect for students in introductory corporate finance classes looking for an easy-to-follow supplementary resource, Corporate Finance For Dummies, delivers intuitive instruction combined with real-world examples that will give you the head start you need to get a grip on everything from the cost of capital to debt analytics, corporate bonds, derivatives, and more.

This workbook draws on the author's thirty years of practical real world experience and provides a detailed description of how to plan and build a pre-financial close Project Finance cash flow model. Providing sufficient theory to give the context for each modelling topic, it focuses on detailed practical methods. Topics covered include treatment of flexible timing assumptions, inflation, multiple currencies, circular calculations, debt and equity calculations, cover factors and IRRs and the use of the model to produce alternative base case scenarios and sensitivity cases. This edition is based on the updated 2010 second edition, produced by a new publisher following withdrawal of Euromoney from book publishing. It includes a section on optimization, covering the theory and practice of optimising revenues and/or funding structures to meet specific constraints such as cover factor and IRR requirements, whilst targeting outcomes such as lowest achievable NPV of project revenues, relevant to PFI and PPP funding structures. The workbook concludes with a series of exercises which work through the process of building a model from a set of illustrative data. Excel files illustrating topics in the book and supporting the exercises are available via the author, (contact details given in the text). Where relevant, information is given for both Excel 2003 and 2007, versions which bridge the main change in Excel functionality from menu to ribbon control.

Buying or selling a business? Acquire the tools and learn the methods for accurate business valuation

Business valuation is the process of determining the value of a business enterprise or ownership interest. Business Valuation For Dummies covers valuation methods, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company's financial statements, forecasting performance; estimating the cost of capital; and cash flow methods of valuation.

Written in plain English, this no-nonsense guide is filled with expert guidance that business owners, managers at all levels, investors, and students can use when determining the value of a business. It contains a solid framework for valuation, including advice on analyzing historical performance, evaluating assets and income value, understanding a company's financial statements, estimating the cost of capital, business valuation models, and how to apply those models to different types of businesses.

Business Valuation For Dummies takes you step-by-step through the business valuation process, explaining the major methods in an easy-to-understand manner with real-world examples. Inside you'll discover:

• The value of business valuation, including when it's necessary
• The fundamental methods and approaches to business valuation
• How to read a valuation report and financial statements
• The other players in the valuation process
• How to decide you're ready to sell -- and the best time to do so
• The three stages of due diligence: the meet and greet; the hunting and gathering; the once-over
• How to decide you're ready to buy -- and find the right business for you
• What due diligence means on the buying side of things
• When to call in the experts: divorce; estate planning and gifting; attracting investors and lenders

This is an essential guide for anyone buying a business, selling a business, participating in a merger or acquisition, or evaluating for tax, loan, or credit purposes. Get your copy of Business Valuation For Dummies to get the information you need to successfully and accurately place a value on any business.