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Course No: 643621

Course Name: Valuation: Businesses, Securities, and Real Estate

Field of Study: Finance

Course Description:

This course covers valuations ranging from businesses, bonds, preferred stock and common stock to real estate. Business valuation is essentially a present value concept that involves estimating future cash flows of a business and discounting them at a required rate of return. The value of a bond is essentially the present value of all future interest and principal payments. Stock price may be expressed as a function of the expected future dividends and a rate of return required by investors. Real estate valuation presents several rule-of-thumb valuation methods.

Learning objectives: After completing this section, you should be able to:

Recognize the reasons for business valuations.
Identify various business valuation methods and the different variables used for valuation purposes.
Recognize the valuation methods used for financial securities.
Identify the determinants of the price-earnings ratio and the definition of beta values.
Recognize other pragmatic valuation approaches and valuation methods for an income producing property.

Course Material: Online Material

Program level: Overview

Prerequisites: Basic Math

Advance preparation: None

Type of delivery method: QAS Self-study

Recommended CPE credits: 3.0

Final examination expiration date: The program participant will have one year from the date of purchase to complete the course and final examination.

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