Contents: 3rd Edition: 'Investment Banking: The Dream Begins'

Oct. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- ‘Investment Banking: The Dream Begins’ is for people who want to understand value. This book can help you get your arms around the many tasks and variables involved in effective valuation of a company and help you decide what kind of help you should enlist to complete a deal.

What’s New About the Third Edition?

Firstly, the third edition of the book has a new Subtitle – The Dream Begins…!!! Then the book has been thoroughly revised and restructured. The book has been divided in four parts with part 1 focuses on introduction to investment banking and discusses in detail about the offerings of investment banking entities with special focus on equity offerings. It too discusses the private equity in depth. Part II discusses the financial statements, segregating operating and non-operating items to determine the core operating profits of the entity, articulation of financial statements and the key ratios to analyse the financials of the company. Part III discusses the reasons valuation happens in a business, and the various valuation tools used by investment bankers. And the last part of the book offers a step-by-step guide for analyzing and valuing a company in practice. Among the many ways to value a company, this part focuses particularly on valuation based on comparable companies and deals – Relative Valuation.

The book acts as the first guide to the capital markets’ aspirants and as a useful resource and reference for the capital market participants who quickly wish to learn the valuation of companies or refine and fine-tune their skills and compare the companies on fundamental basis for mergers, acquisitions, private equity investments, etc. This book is also highly beneficial for investment banking trainers providing various training programmes on valuation of companies.


Contents of the 3rd Edition

Part I
Chapter 1: The Origin of Investment Banking
Chapter 2: The Business of Investment Banks
Chapter 3: Equity Offerings & Exit
Chapter 4: Private Equity

Part II
Chapter 5: Understanding The Financial Statements
Chapter 6: Cleaning the Financial Statements
Chapter 7: Analysing Financial Statements

Part III
Chapter 8: Valuation Overview

Part IV
Chapter 9: Valuation Based on Multiples – Trading Comps
Chapter 10: Valuation Based on Multiples - Transaction Comps

Part V
Excel Shortcuts


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