Accountants often need basic business valuation knowledge and skills to assist their clients or employers. This seminar provides participants with practical insight into business valuation. Participants will learn about and apply various valuation tools such as the capitalized cash flow (CCF) approach and the discounted cash flow (DCF) approach to business case studies. The seminar also focuses on business valuation interpretation and the mechanics of the valuation process under an asset approach, income approach, and market approach.

While this seminar may be useful for any finance professional, the course targets the following professionals

• Professionals in industry and practitioners with minimal business valuation experience 
• Executives, such as Controllers, CFOs, and Finance Directors, who seek an understanding of business valuations either for financial/tax reporting or for mergers and acquisitions 
• Public practice professionals working in audit or tax and looking to increase or refresh their specialized knowledge set

• Assess when to value the assets of a company individually versus when to value an enterprise as a whole
• Create a bridge between enterprise value and equity value, including the impacts of redundant assets and debt-like items, as part of a valuation exercise
• Calculate the cost of capital for a company, including: cost of equity, cost of debt and weighted average cost of capital, when formulating discount rates
• Ascertain relevance between a subject company to value, comparable public companies and precedent transactions when triangulating value in a secondary approach
• Utilize the basics concepts of specific valuation standards in a mock valuation engagement

• Overview and application of valuation methodologies, including income approaches, market approaches, and asset approaches 
• CCF and DCF valuation techniques and their application
• The calculation of maintainable earnings
• The determination of capitalization and discount rates
• A comparison of enterprise value and equity value
• Market valuation approaches using equity value and enterprise value multiples 

Live webinars have varying levels of expected interaction, with some requiring microphone and camera capabilities to support a proper learning experience – please email pdreg@bccpa.ca if you have concerns. 

In general, we encourage participants to have their cameras turned on to enhance their virtual learning experience. This practice promotes a stronger connection with the instructor and fellow participants, and fosters improved communication and collaboration.

Live Webinar FAQs can be found here.  

Registration terms and conditions, including the cancellation policy can be found here. If you require further assistance, please contact the PD Department.