Damodaran On Valuation - Security Analysis For Investment And Corporate Finance 2nd Edition

In this book, one of the best valuation masters talks about company and investment valuation. Damodaran’s valuable guidelines have been of immense help to expert analysts, corporate strategists and CEOs in using valuation for multiple purposes, ranging from basic accounting and tax assessment to business analysis.

Summary Of The Book

The second edition of Damodaran On Valuation - Security Analysis For Investment And Corporate Finance has stood out as the most remarkable and dependable book for answering an array of today’s valuation-related queries. This book provides an appropriate basis for all valuation approaches, thereby helping the readers acquire a comprehensive understanding of the process.

The book begins with an introduction to the core concept of valuation. Once the meaning of the process has been established, Damodaran goes on to explain how the rate of interest is calculated.

Damodaran On Valuation - Security Analysis For Investment And Corporate Finance covers techniques that help measure existing cash flows and earnings, and help estimate future cash flows too. Three approaches within the Discounted Cash Flow framework have also been explained in detail. The book then talks about topics like Firm Valuation and Relative Valuation, explaining the fundamental principles of the same. The last part of the book tackles topics like The Value of Intangibles, The Cost of Distress, The Value of Transparency, The Value of Liquidity, and Standards Poors Transparency and Disclosure.

Damodaran successfully helps the reader gain an understanding of the vigour of modern day valuation models, and also helps them develop the ability to judge the most complex and precise valuation scenarios acutely.

About Aswath Damodaran

A finance guru and a professor at New York University Stern School Of Business, Damodaran teaches Equity Instruments & Markets and Corporate Finance. His research interests include Real Estate, Valuation, and Information and Prices.

Leading financial journals have published his works, and some of these journals include The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies. His latest publications include A New 'Risky' World Order: Unstable Risk Premiums: Implications for Practice, Comatose Markets: What if Liquidity is Not the Norm?, and Breach of Trust: Valuing Financial Service Firms in the Post-Crisis Era.

He has been felicitated on several occasions for his teaching abilities. He has received the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, the Schools of Business Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from New York University. He holds M.B.A (Finance) and PhD (Finance) degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. He also holds a B.A in Accounting from Madras University and an M.S in Management from IIM-Bangalore.