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June 26, 2025

Business Valuation Methodologies for Non-Finance Professionals

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What Will I Learn?

  • Understand the life cycle stage of a company
  • Valuation methodologies relevant early stage, growth stage and mature stage companies
  • Numerical examples of conducting a valuation assessement
  • Cash flows based valuation approaches
  • Sales vs Profit valuation multiples

Course Content

Module 1: Business Valuation

  • 01:32
  • 01:07
  • 01:16
  • Different life-cycle stages of a company
    02:29
  • Valuation of an early stage company
    00:32
  • Illustration of an early stage company valuation
    01:04
  • Numerical example of an early stage company valuation
    01:30
  • Valuation of a growth stage company
    00:26
  • What is a sales valuation multiple?
    00:57
  • Illustration of a growth stage company valuation
    00:34
  • Numerical example of a growth stage company valuation
    02:15
  • Valuation of a mature stage company
    00:44
  • What is an earnings valuation multiple?
    01:04
  • Illustration of a mature stage company valuation
    00:41
  • Numerical example of a mature stage company valuation
    02:08
  • Discounted Cash Flows (DCF) approach to valuation (0:35 )
    00:35
  • Illustration of a DCF valuation approach
    01:11
  • Understanding Free Cash Flows (FCF) calculation
    01:27
  • Free Cash Flows (FCF) are calculated for the future
    01:28
  • Timing mismatch in Free Cash Flows in future
    01:33
  • Finding the Present Value of future FCF
    03:58
  • Discounting future FCF to bring to Present Value terms
    01:32
  • Generalization formula for discounting FCF
    01:31
  • Finding the valuation of a company using DCF
    00:33
  • DCF Approach – Quick Recap
    01:48
  • Quick Recap – Negotiation based valuation approach
    00:42
  • Quick Recap – Sales multiples based valuation approach
    00:38
  • Quick Recap – Earnings multiples based valuation approach
    00:43
  • Quick Recap – DCF based valuation approach
    00:11
  • Your destination is reached: Summing Up
    00:43

About the instructors

Ashish is a Business and Finance Expert with around 10 years of experience in this domain. Previously, he has worked with BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management company, as a Vice President in the Financial Markets Advisory (FMA) team. Prior to that, he worked at McKinsey in the Strategy and Corporate Finance practice. He is also the founder of the website skillfinlearning.com which creates online programs in Business, Finance and Data Analysis topics. At Skillfin Learning, we believe we can change the way we adults learn.
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I learnt so much about business valuation methodologies. This will help me in my job moving forward.

The course content was comprehensive and well-structured. It provided a clear understanding of various business valuation methodologies, making complex financial concepts accessible to non-finance professionals like myself. The modules covered a wide range of topics, from income-based methods to market-based approaches, and the real-life case studies were particularly insightful.

The instructors were outstanding. They were not only knowledgeable but also skilled at breaking down intricate concepts into easily digestible pieces of information. They encouraged active participation and provided practical examples to reinforce our understanding. The use of real-world case studies was particularly helpful in applying the valuation methodologies to actual businesses.

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Enrollment validity: Membership Wise
Durations: 1 hour
Lectures: 30
Students: Max 0
Level: Beginner
Language: English
Certificate: Yes

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Requirements

  • No pre-requisites
  • Everything is taught from scratch