2025/2026

Corporate Valuation Cases in Mergers and Acquisitions

Type: Mago-Lego

Delivered by: International College of Economics and Finance

When: 3 module

Open to: students of one campus

Language: English

Contact hours: 48

Course Syllabus

Abstract

Corporate Valuation Cases is a one-semester course which primary objective is to give students some useful insight into the practicalities of investment banking profession. The course will further strengthen financial evaluation skills obtained by student in the previous courses and will focus on practical aspects of valuation models applied to various industries and transaction types. The course will start with some overview of modern accounting practice under IFRS (and GAAP), as applied to an investment banker’s work. It will also provide students a brief overview of the European and US securities regulation in terms of the major areas of awareness in the IB environment. This will involve discussing typical disclosure requirements and common bankers’ duties in a banker-client relationship and corporate governance. An overview of the major areas of awareness when concluding corporate transactions under the English law will be provided. The course material will be based on selected sections of the required reading list and optional supplementary readings to be provided to the students by the ICEF. Most of the sessions will be concluded by practical interactive cases involving multiple aspects of the course material, to be submitted by the next class session. Throughout the course, the cases will increase in complexity from qualitative analysis to practical valuation models and actual deal making by students. The course will be taught and evaluated in English. Prerequisites: A Corporate Finance course or equivalent. Investment Analysis course or equivalent. Basic accounting course.