Course description
Digital Finance: Value Creation
For the past several years, investors have once again been large buyers of companies with fast growth and high uncertainty - especially Internet and related technologies. The rapid rise of many such stocks, underpinned by the digital transformation acceleration as a result of Covid-19, raised questions about the disconnect in the stock market that appeared to assign a higher value to companies the more their losses mounted.
This module aims to provide more precise valuations critical to investors, and how to adapt well-established valuation principles for high-growth companies and tech start-ups. The core principles of economics and finance apply even in uncharted territories.
Participants will learn about concepts of value creation and understand valuation techniques, including a recent IPO valuation case study to solidify the key takeaways.
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Course leader
Professor Roy Ling is a Managing Director at RL Capital Management and has over 20 years of experience in investment banking. He concurrently serves as a Board Director of several listed companies and non-profit organizations across Asia, and as an Adjunct Professor in Finance at the EDHEC Business School.
Previously, Prof Ling was a senior Real Estate Investment Banker at JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs and Salomon Smith Barney, performing a broad range of corporate finance, equity research and real estate financing. He was also a former Board Director of the CFA Society of Japan. Prof Ling was honoured as Real Estate Executive of the Year by Singapore Business Review in 2016, and as one of 20 Rising Stars in Real Estate by Institutional Investor in 2008.
Prof Ling graduated from INSEAD with a Global EMBA and from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours.
Suitability - Who should attend?
- CEOs, CFOs, COOs
- Investment bankers
- Management consultants
- Financial analysts
- Institutional investors
- CFA candidates
Participants are not required to have specific prior experience of any of the subject areas. More experienced individuals will be able to build on their knowledge through practical, current case studies.
Outcome / Qualification etc.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand shareholder value creation and the core value principle
- Identify the key drivers of investment returns with excel
- Analyze valuation techniques for high growth companies and start-ups
- Learn about venture capital and financing structures
- Solidify key takeaways using a recent IPO case study
Training Course Content
Day One
Key drivers of investment returns
- Identify the key drivers of investment returns with excel
- Crystallize abstract concepts using numbers
- Understand the concept of financial leverage
- Analyze the impacts to IRR and ROE
Core valuation principle
- Understand the core value principle
- Identify how to create shareholder value
- Recognize how corporate strategy drives financial valuation
- Analyze valuation techniques for high growth companies and start-ups
Day Two
Venture capital financing
- Examine venture capital investing structures
- Distinguish various financing structures for start-ups
- Understand how to value high-growth companies and start-ups
- Explore new and creative ways to IPO
Group case study
- Synthesize key takeaways using a recent IPO case study
- Identify what drives total returns for IPO investors
- Examine the different factors that drive the IPO
- Contrast differences in valuation techniques between high-growth and stabilized companies
Course delivery details
Courses are delivered in the London classroom and live online via LFS Live in London, New York, and Singapore time zones.
Please contact LFS for more details.
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