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Corporate valuation estimates what a business or its equity is worth, using discounted cash flow, market multiples or asset-based methods. It supports acquisitions, fundraising, impairment testing and disputes, and its output should be a defensible range rather than a single precise figure.

The income approach, usually a discounted cash flow; the market approach, using multiples of comparable companies or transactions; and the asset-based approach. Coursework normally expects a DCF as the primary method with multiples used as a sanity check on the result.

Discounted cash flow values a business as the present value of the cash it is expected to generate, discounted at a rate reflecting the risk of those cash flows. It requires a forecast period, a terminal value and a discount rate, usually the weighted average cost of capital.

Weight the cost of equity and the after-tax cost of debt by their shares of total capital, then add them. The after-tax cost of debt is the pre-tax rate multiplied by one minus the tax rate. Weights should be based on market values rather than book values.

Because the weights should reflect what the capital is actually worth today, which is what an investor would pay or a buyer would assume. Book values reflect historical accounting entries and can differ enormously from market values, particularly for equity.

Free cash flow to the firm is the cash available to all capital providers, before interest, and is discounted at WACC to give enterprise value. Free cash flow to equity is after interest and debt movements, and is discounted at the cost of equity to give equity value directly.

Start from EBIT, deduct tax to get NOPAT, add back depreciation and amortisation because they are non-cash, then deduct capital expenditure and any increase in working capital. Omitting the working capital movement is the single most common error in student forecasts.

Terminal value captures the value of all cash flows beyond the explicit forecast period, usually with a perpetual growth formula or an exit multiple. It typically accounts for well over half of total value, so its assumptions warrant more scrutiny than the detailed forecast years.

Because the Gordon growth formula divides by the discount rate minus the growth rate. If growth equals or exceeds the discount rate the denominator becomes zero or negative and the result is meaningless. Growth should also not exceed long-run economic growth.

Enterprise value is the value of the operating business, available to all capital providers. Equity value is what remains for shareholders: enterprise value less debt, plus cash, less other claims such as minority interests and preference shares. Confusing the two is heavily penalised.

Match the numerator to the denominator. Enterprise value pairs with pre-interest measures such as EBITDA and EBIT; price pairs with post-interest measures such as earnings. EV/EBITDA is the most common but ignores capital intensity and tax differences, so EV/EBIT often suits capital-heavy firms better than EBITDA does.

State criteria and apply them: industry and business model, size, growth, margins, geography and capital structure. Then explain any adjustments made. A comparables set presented without selection criteria looks chosen to produce a desired answer, and markers treat it that way.

Because value is dominated by a few assumptions, especially the discount rate and perpetual growth. A table showing how value moves across plausible ranges of each demonstrates both understanding and honesty, whereas a single point estimate conceals just how fragile the conclusion actually is.

Standard discounting assumes cash arrives at each year end, which understates value slightly because cash actually accrues through the year. The mid-year convention discounts from the middle of each period instead. Say which convention you used, since it changes the answer.

Yes. A one-to-one tutor can work through WACC, free cash flow, terminal value and the enterprise-to-equity bridge with you, check your model and show you how to present a sensitivity analysis. You complete your own assessed work in line with your course rules.