Starts:

11 September

on 15:00 UTC

Free Webinar: The Biggest Mistakes of Private Company Valuations 2024

Webinar

Even experienced professionals can make mistakes and stumble into pitfalls when navigating the business valuation process. The standards are dynamic, evolving with economic conditions, adjusting to industry changes, and further augmented by technological advances.

Discover how to steer your company clear of these most common missteps in the Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions & Alliances’ (IMAA) upcoming webinar, The Biggest Mistakes of Private Company Valuation 2024.

 

In this free webinar, experts Paul Resch (CEO, Valutico), Greg Brown (VP Europe, Valutico), and Steve Shaw (Valuation Thought Leader) will share insights, tools and techniques to help you identify and tackle the most common errors to avoid in private company valuation.

 

 

Our specialists invite you to a session on Wednesday, September 11th, where we will cover:

 

  • The most prevalent valuation errors, such as poorly chosen comparators for betas and multiples, confusion regarding bases of value, and the selection and application of discounts and premiums.
  • Practical advice and solutions to address these common errors.
  • How technology can guide you in eliminating errors from the start to the end of the valuation process.

 

Participate in this session to enhance your advisory skills by expanding your valuation expertise with best practices and advanced tools.

 

We look forward to having you join us on September 11th for an exclusive deep dive session on effective steps to overcome significant valuation mistakes.

Important Details

When: September 11, 2024

Where: Live Streamed via LinkedIn, YouTube, and Facebook

Time: 11:00 ET | 16:00 BST | 17:00 CET

What to Expect :

In this highly interactive session, our experts will discuss extensively and give real world examples to help you avoid costly oversights and miscalculations in the areas of:

 

  • Debt Assumptions (debt level and cost of debt)
    Excess cash vs operating cash
  • Poor choice of comparators for betas and multiples
  • Enterprise value VS equity value
  • Inconsistencies in cash flow assumptions
  • Confusion about bases of value
  • Double counting between alpha and beta
  • Choice and application of discounts and premiums

Speaker Profiles

Paul Resch

Founder & CEO, Valutico

Paul Resch is the founder and CEO of the world’s leading business valuation software, Valutico. A corporate finance expert, with 4 years in M&A at Deutsche bank, Paul’s idea for Valutico was born out of a personal frustration with conducting valuations using the only available system at the time: Excel. Complex, slow, and frustrating, Paul noted this way of doing valuations could be vastly improved, and working with data scientists and a dedicated group of experts, created Valutico in 2017, which now boasts more than 750 client firms in 90 countries around the world.

Email address: [email protected]

Steve Shaw
Valuation Thought Leader & Director, Financial Seminars Ltd.

Steve Shaw, a leading authority on valuation best practice, has shaped management and finance seminars since the early 1990s. With over 12,000 teaching hours in 50 countries and 15,000 hours dedicated to personal development, Steve facilitates internal meetings, aiding robust business process development. His mission is to foster satisfaction in daily business lives through meticulously crafted workshops in finance, strategy, and personal development. Specialising in valuation, negotiation, strategy, NLP, psychometrics, real options, and Monte Carlo, Steve enriches learning experiences with a diverse skill set.
Email address: [email protected]

Greg Brown
VP Europe, Valutico

Greg Brown specialises in helping better understand a finance professional’s challenges and pain points when it comes to valuation work and then potentially showing them a better way of doing things.  As Valutico’s VP Sales, Greg has helped countless businesses at home and abroad improve their valuation processes and speed, by taking advantage of Valutico’s powerful flagship valuation system to bolster their own valuation offering.  He comes from a Finance orientated background having operated successfully and held senior level roles at IBM, Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services, Equals Money Plc and XE.com.
Email address: [email protected]

Host

Tom Allen 

Chief Education Officer, IMAA 

Tom Allen is a Chartered Accountant (ACA) and has successfully led over 40 M&A transactions, encompassing both buy and sell-side, including cross-border complexities and numerous due diligence projects and valuations. His international experience includes working at a high-growth, venture-backed start-up and co-founding a software company. 

  

As a guest lecturer at Warwick Business School EMBA and a speaker at global conferences, Tom has shared practical insights into M&A. He has led fundraises at various stages (pre-seed, seed, Series A) and authored M&A playbooks for global companies such as Shell, KPMG, EY, Unilever, Philips, HP, and Cognizant. 

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Speakers:

Paul Resch
Founder & CEO, Valutico
Steve Shaw
Valuation Thought Leader & Director, Financial Seminars Ltd.
Greg Brown
VP Europe, Valutico
Tom Allen
Chief Education Officer, IMAA

Host:

Paul Resch
Founder & CEO, Valutico
Steve Shaw
Valuation Thought Leader & Director, Financial Seminars Ltd.
Greg Brown
VP Europe, Valutico
Tom Allen
Chief Education Officer, IMAA

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