Business valuation

Business valuation is a process and a set of procedures used to estimate the economic value of an owner's interest in a business. Here various valuation techniques are used by financial market participants to determine the price they are willing to pay or receive to effect a sale of the business. In addition to estimating the selling price of a business, the same valuation tools are often used by business appraisers to resolve disputes related to estate and gift taxation, divorce litigation, allocate business purchase price among business assets, establish a formula for estimating the value of partners' ownership interest for buy-sell agreements, and many other business and legal purposes such as in shareholders deadlock, divorce litigation and estate contest. Specialized business valuation credentials include the Chartered Business Valuator (CBV) offered by the CBV Institute, ASA and CEIV from the American Society of Appraisers, plus the CVA and CBA by the National Association of C

Assessment and valuation of high growth companies

Patrik Frei

Valuation is a key topic in the financing and development of high growth companies. The goal of this study is to bridge the existing gap between the assessment of a company and the financial valuation. Many models exist to capture soft factors, and many more studies have been conducted to understand financial valuation models. In this study, the first step is to develop an assessment framework to capture the value drivers for high growth companies. Based on literature research, an empirical study with 52 valuations, and an iterative process this assessment framework has been built. It contains the following three main factors: Management Market environment Product, Sciences & Technology Each of these main criteria contain a number of sub-criteria shown in Figure 1. For each criterion, a rating between 1 and 6 is given with a specific scale that can be implemented in practice for high growth companies. Even though every company is different, the provided framework allows a systematic and transparent assessment of a high growth company. The proposed valuation methods are specifically targeted for high growth companies and include operational based methods such as discounted cash flow and option pricing, as well as relative methods such as the market comparable and comparable deal methods. Some others, such as the venture capital method, are also a combination of an operational and relative approach. The methodical assessment framework enables a link to be made with the financial valuation models to obtain a consistent and comprehensive assessment and valuation approach for high growth companies. The link is made by splitting up the discount rate into different premiums and by introducing a calculation schema. The assessment framework and its criteria have been tested in an empirical study to find correlations between the success of a company and the provided rating/framework. With the available sample of 25 valuations, this correlation could be shown for the market environment and the product, science & technology. For the management factor, it was not possible to show a statistical significance, even though practical experience had shown that management is a key factor. A main reason why no statistical significance was shown could be that the management team can be changed very quickly. Assessment and valuation of high growth companies 2 Thus, the assessment and valuation is a done at a specific moment in time but did not capture the development of the management team. However, in conclusion, the assessment and valuation is still an art. The proposed framework provides a roadmap to becoming an artist in this field and should serve as a practical guideline.

EPFL2005

Valuation, Recognition, and Signaling in the Digital Public Sphere: the TED Talk Ranking Ecosystem

Heidi Christina Gautschi, Gianluigi Viscusi

In the past few years a new actor, who is playing an increasingly important role in ranking ideas and the scholars who share them, has emerged: the TED organization. While debate has surrounded popular academic research output rankings such as, impact factor, h‐index, Times Higher Education Ranking and Google Scholar, the TED Talk phenomenon does not seem to have garnered the same amount of interest. We argue that TED talks can be seen as a social form of ranking which specifically affects higher education and potentially research and innovation through decisions on what to invest in next. The TED organization then becomes a gatekeeper in the production and the cultural valuation of symbolic goods and social practices, especially with regard to research and innovation worth spreading. In this chapter we attempt to demonstrate how the TED ecosystem is a marketplace for ideas. By applying the concepts of recognition, valuation and signaling, we show how the TED ecosystem functions as both a means of gaining recognition for speakers and their ideas, but also provides a means of ranking those ideas and projects by signaling their importance by inclusion in the curated collection of talks accessible on the TED website.

Springer2017

Assessment and valuation of high growth companies

Patrik Frei

EPFL2005

Assessment and valuation of high growth companies

Capital budgeting, investment project valuation and financing mix

Valuation, Recognition, and Signaling in the Digital Public Sphere: the TED Talk Ranking Ecosystem

Capital budgeting, investment project valuation and financing mix

Assessment and valuation of high growth companies

Valuation, Recognition, and Signaling in the Digital Public Sphere: the TED Talk Ranking Ecosystem