Mergers and Acquisitions: Free Cash Flow Modeling.
Learn how to evaluate a company's financial performance to determine acquisition opportunities.
- Duration 3 weeks
- 4 hours per week
- Learn for free
- Upgrade for $354
Learn how to use free cash flow modeling
This course looks at how to use free cash flow concepts to analyse and evaluate corporate performance in order to make better capital budgeting and acquisition decisions.
You will get an introduction to free cash flow and its components and learn about cost of capital. You will also look at how free cash flow can be used in acquisitions, and eplore some common implementation issues.
What topics will you cover?
- Free cash flow components and the objective of the firm.
- The cost of capital, capital budegting using free cash flow, and modified free cash flow.
- Using free cash flow to evaluate acquisition opportunities, and the integration of acquistions and its issues.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you will be able to.....
- Investigate how to develop a Free Cash Flow approach to incentive Compensation.
- Compare the relationship between Free Cash Flow and Economic Value Added Value Acquisitions using Free Cash Flow.
- Identify the steps to use Free Cash Flow of Capital Budgeting Decisions.
- Describe the steps to calculate Cost of Capital.
- Explain the Drivers of Free Cash Flow.
- Compare Free Cash Flow to Net Income.
- Identify Free Cash Flow From Accounting Data.
Who is the Course for?
This course is ideal for financial analysts and associates. It is also suitable for directors and managers who have transitioned, or hope to transition, to mergers and acquistions from other areas, such as equities or fixed income.
To get the most from this course you will need a good knowledge of financial analysis and MS Excel.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Aryan Harrison
Director of Education: Golden Center for Free Cash Flow Modelling Programme Director : MCA Modeling Education.