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Session 24: Closing Dividend Books and Opening Valuation Act

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A 2022 Zomato Update: Price, Value and the Gap!

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Session 25: Financial Flexibility and Distressed Equity as Options

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Sow the wind, Reap the whirlwind: An Inflation Update (September 23, 2022)

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Uncertainty in Investing and Valuation: What if questions, Scenario Analysis and Simulations

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Session 23: FCFE, Dividends and Cash Balances

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Free Cash Flow: Back to Basics

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Session 24: Natural Resource Reserves, The Option to Expand and Abandon

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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 1: Corporate Governance - The What, Why and What now?

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Session 22: The Dividend Trade off - Good and Bad Reasons for Paying Dividends

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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 2: Accounting Inconsistencies and Consequences

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Session 23: Real Options Introduction

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Facebook (Meta) Lesson 3: Tell me a story!

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Session 21: Debt Design and Dividend Basics

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A Return to Teaching: The Spring 2023 Edition

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Session 22: Private Company Valuation - The Rest of the Story

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Data Update 1 for 2023: Setting the table

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Session 20: From actual to optimal and designing debt (intuitive)

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Data Update 2 for 2023: A Rocky Year for Equities!

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Session 21: Closing up pricing, asset based valuation and private company valuation

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Session 1: Valuation 101 - Broad Themes and Class Logistics

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Session 19: Financing Mix - The Rest of the Story

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Session 2: First Steps on Valuation - Bias and the Bermuda Triangle

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Session 20: Pricing young companies and across the market

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Revisiting Tesla in January 2023: The Great Unraveling or a Return to Normalcy?

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Session 18: Cost of Capital as Financing Mix Optimizer

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Session 1: Class Logistics, Mission and Themes

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Session 19: More on Pricing

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Data Update 3 for 2023: Interest Rates and Bond Returns in 2022

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Session 17: The Miller Modigliani Theorem and Financing Hierarchies

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Session 2: The Bermuda Triangle and Approaches to Valuation

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Dissent and Debate: Pushback on my Tesla Valuation!

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India Rising hits a Roadblock: The Short Selling Threat to the Adani Group!

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Valeant: Damaged Goods or Deeply Discounted Drug Company?

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Data 2017 Update 10: The Pricing Game

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Good Companies, Good Managers, Good Investments: Deciphering the Divide

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The Theocratic Trifecta: The Allure and False Promise of ESG, Sustainability and Stakeholder Wealth

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Session 5: Equity Risk Premiums

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Session 7: Bottom-up Betas and Costs of Debt

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Session 11: Terminal Value and First Steps on Loose Ends

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Session 6: Risk, Riskfree Rates and Equity Risk Premiums (a start)

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Session 9: Bottom Up Betas

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Session 6: Betas and Beyond

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Session 10: Top Down Growth

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Session 8: Cost of Capital Wrap-up and First Steps on Cash flows

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Session 8: The Determinants of Betas

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Data Update 5 for 2023: Profitability, Returns and Value

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Session 9: Historical, Analyst and Fundamental growth

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Session 7: Equity Risk Premiums

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Session 7: The Beta Regression

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Session 7: Cost of Debt and Capital and First Steps on Cash Flows

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Snap, the Perishable Picture Company: Valuing the IPO

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Session 9: More on cash flows

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Data Update 6 for 2023: The Upside and Downside of Debt

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Session 7: Cost of Capital Closure and First Steps on Cash Flows

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Session 8: Free Cash Flows to Firm and Equity

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Session 5: Risk and Return Models and The Marginal Investor

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Session 10: FCFE across the life cycle and Growth Rate Estimation

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The Greatest Cash Machine in History: An Analysis of Apple (February 2017)

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Session 9: Betas - Drivers and Determinants

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Session 6: Measuring Relative Risk (Equity) and Cost of Debt

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Session 9: Growth Rates

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Session 4: Closing the books on the objective function and Opening the one on Risk

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Session 11: Growth generalized!

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Session 10: Closure on Cost of Equity

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Session 3: Managers, Markets and Morality

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Session 10: Growth and Terminal Value

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Data 2017 Update 9: Dividends, Rodney Dangerfield of Corporate Finance

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Session 12: The Tail that wags the Dog? Terminal Value in DCF

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Session 4: Risk free Rates (continued) and first steps on ERP

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Data Update 7 for 2023: Dividends, Buybacks and Cashflows

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Data 2017 Update 8: Debt, the Dark and Light Side!

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Session 11: Terminal Value Closure and First steps on the Loose Ends

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Session 3: DCF Overview and First Steps on Discount Rates

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Session 13: More loose ends in valuation

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Session 12: Measuring Investment Returns

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Data 2017 Update 7: Of Good and Bad Businesses!

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Session 12: Last Loose Ends and First Steps on Storytelling

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Data 2017 Update 6: The Cost of Capital

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Session 14: Last loose end and story telling in valuation

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Session 2: Setting the Table

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Session 13: Incremental Cashflows and Dealing with Uncertainty

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Data 2017 Update 5: A Taxing Year Ahead?

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Session 13: More on stories and first valuations

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Data 2017 Update 4: Country Risk

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Session 15: More on story telling and first valuations

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Session 14: Equity Analysis, Acquisition Valuation and NPV vs IRR

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Data 2017 Update 3: Cracking the Currency Code

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Session 14: Valuing the Market and Young Companies

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Data 2017 Update 2: The US Markets in 2016

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Session 16: Valuing companies across the life cycle

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Narrative and Numbers: A number cruncher learns to tell stories!

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Session 15: More excursions on the dark side of valuation

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Data 2017 Update 1: The Promise and Perils of Data

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Session 17: More excursions on the Dark Side of Valuation

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Session 15: The Tesla Bot Case and Side Benefits/Costs in Projects

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Active Investing: Rest in Peace or Resurgent Force?

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Session 16: Closure on Investment Analysis

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Session 16: Tying up Intrinsic Value

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Session 18: Tying up Intrinsic Value