Description of Valuation
The #1 guide to corporate valuation is back . . . and better than ever!
"The best valuation book just got better. This edition′s greater emphasis on what drives value and how to measure it will improve the way practitioners conduct financial analysis and, ultimately, make strategic decisions. It is required reading for all executives."
—Professor Benjamin C. Esty, Harvard Business School author of Modern Project Finance: A Casebook
"The bible in its field. Anyone wanting to understand what drives corporate value should read this latest edition."
—Dr. Raymund Breu, Chief Financial Officer, Novartis AG
"Valuation gets to the heart of how to measure and manage value in a company. Whether you are evaluating an acquisition, restructuring a corporation, or formulating strategy, this book will help you do it well."
—John A. Manzoni, Chief Executive Refining and Marketing, BP plc
Praise for the First Edition
"A ′how–to′ guide for corporate executives who want to get at the unrealized shareholder values trapped in public companies."
—The New York Times
"The book′s clarity and comprehensive coverage make it one of the best practitioners′ guides to valuation."
—Financial Times
Title Information
- ISBN:
- 9780471702184
- Pages:
- 768 pages
- Format:
- Hardback
- Product Code:
- 20881
- Publisher:
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Published:
- 10/06/2005
- Edition:
- 4th Edition
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About McKinsey & Company Inc. and Tim Koller and Marc Goedhart and David Wessels
McKINSEY & COMPANY is a management consulting firm that helps leading corporations and organizations make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance. Over the past seven decades, the firm′s primary objective has remained constant: to serve as an organization′s most trusted external advisor on critical issues facing senior management. With consultants deployed from over eighty offices in more than forty countries, McKinsey advises companies on strategic, operational, organizational, financial, and technological issues. The firm has extensive experience in all major industry sectors and primary functional areas, as well as in–depth expertise in high–priority areas for today′s business leaders.
Tim Koller is a partner in McKinsey′s New York office. Tim has served clients in North America and Europe on corporate strategy and issues concerning capital markets, M&A transactions, and value–based management. He leads the firm′s research activities in valuation and capital markets issues. He received his MBA from the University of Chicago.
Marc Goedhart is an associate principal in McKinsey′s Amsterdam office. Marc has served clients across Europe on portfolio restructuring, issues concerning capital markets, and M&A transactions. He received a PhD in finance from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
David Wessels is an adjunct Professor of Finance and director of executive education at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Named by BusinessWeek as one of America′s top business school instructors, he teaches corporate valuation at the MBA and Executive MBA levels. David received his PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles.