Valuation Workbook: Step-by-Step Exercises and Tests to Help You Master Valuation (Wiley Finance) [Paperback]

Tim Koller (Author), Marc Goedhart (Author), David Wessels (Author), Jeffrey P. Lessard (Author), McKinsey & Company (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471702161 | ISBN-13: 978-0471702160 | Publication Date: May 19, 2006 | Edition: 4th

The Ideal Companion to VALUATION FOURTH EDITION


If you want to get more out of Valuation, Fourth Edition, then pick up 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.

This hands-on Workbook:
* Walks you through Valuation, Fourth Edition--providing chapter-by-chapter coverage of the core text
* Tests your comprehension of the ideas presented throughout, with multiple-choice questions and problems
* Offers complete coverage of forecasting short, medium, and continuing value; calculating and interpreting results; real option pricing methods; and much more

Valuation Workbook is filled with a wealth of practical learning exercises and information that will help you understand and apply the proven principles found in Valuation, Fourth Edition.

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The Ideal Companion to VALUATION FOURTH EDITION

If you want to get more out of Valuation, Fourth Edition, then pick up 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.

This hands-on Workbook:

• Walks you through Valuation, Fourth Edition—providing chapter-by-chapter coverage of the core text
• Tests your comprehension of the ideas presented throughout, with multiple-choice questions and problems
• Offers complete coverage of forecasting short, medium, and continuing value; calculating and interpreting results; real option pricing methods; and much more

Valuation Workbook is filled with a wealth of practical learning exercises and information that will help you understand and apply the proven principles found in Valuation, Fourth Edition.

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 firm's primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organization's most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from over eighty offices in more than forty countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organizational, financial, and technological issues. The firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas, as well as in-depth expertise in high-priority areas for today's business leaders.

Tim Koller is a partner in McKinsey's 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 firm's research activities in valuation and capital markets issues. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago.

Marc Goedhart is an associate principal in McKinsey's 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 America's 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.

Jeffrey P. Lessard, CFA, is Associate Professor of Finance and Accounting at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Dr. Lessard received his PhD in finance from the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas. His primary scholarly interests are in the areas of corporate valuation, the influence of the board of directors on the creation of shareholder value, portfolio performance, and performance and presentation standards in the investment industry.

Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons; 4th edition (May 19, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471702161
• ISBN-13: 978-0471702160
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #451,785 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Tim Koller is a partner in McKinsey's 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 firm's research activities in valuation and capital markets issues. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago.

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5.0 out of 5 stars How to reach Long Term Goals, April 23, 2011

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Often text books on Finance and Accounting are filled to the brim with Theory. Theory has it's place, but it will not help you perform well in real wourld Accounting and Finance positions. Often books lack detail or the math to fully explain issues. This book lacks neither. It is an excellent read and must have for Accounting/Finance students who want relevant information for real world valuation.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book (But), October 13, 2009

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I think that they should give more details about sources of information and data.
Also more detailed methods of the claculations they make.

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice Supplement to Valuation, December 10, 2011

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I hate buying textbooks for class, but this is the one textbook that i'm going to keep after class. It is more like a handbook as it contains an incredible amount of useful information on valuation. WACC, ROIC, EP, DCF it is all here the list could go on and on and ..... The workbook gets you tuned into the finer points that can get lost in the regular text. Reading the workbook questions makes you say "oh, that's what they were talking about." This book is extremely helpful if your teacher gives you a 100 true/false question test as my teacher did. Overall a great supplement to the valuation book. However, the book seems to contain some errors such as the broken out ROIC formula. In the main text it is listed differently than what is in the workbook. Not so helpful when trying to study for a test.