Applied Corporate Finance – Real Companies, Real Data, Real Time - Corporate Finance

Overview
Objectives & Outline
Programme Agenda
Methodology
Participant Profile
Trainer

Overview

PROGRAMME DETAILS
DATE
Not Available
TIME
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
VENUE
Sasana Kijang, Kuala Lumpur
The Asian Banking School is pleased to be hosting this year’s programme by internationally renowned Professor Aswath Damodaran on Applied Corporate Finance. Jointly organized with the Malaysian Investment Banking Association (MIBA), it will provide participants with the tools and techniques developed to answer corporate finance questions, and how best to apply them in practice. It will also look at the big picture of corporate finance, the inter-relationship between corporate financial decisions and how these decisions affect the value of a business.

The topics covered over the two-day programme will include risk and how to convert a risk measure into a hurdle rate, investment analysis, different approaches to coming up with the optimal debt ratio for a firm, how much firms pay in dividends and whether they should pay more or less, and tying corporate finance decisions to value. Participants will have the opportunity to gain insights, exchange views, network and share experiences on the latest thinking and practice in corporate finance.
LEARNING LEVEL
Intermediate
PROGRAMME FEE
MIBA MEMBER
MYR
2,700
/ PAX
NON-MEMBER
MYR
3,000
/ PAX
Jointly with:
Registration is closed
Objectives & Outline
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
This programme aims to put into perspective the current thinking and practices for corporate finance practitioners to be able to:
Understand the big picture of corporate finance
Learn the tools and techniques that have been developed in theory to answer corporate finance questions
Apply practical tools and techniques in corporate finance
Understand the interrelationship between corporate financial decisions and how these decisions affect the value of a business
Upon completion of the programme, participants will be able to know:
Where and how a business should invest itsresources
How a business raise funds to finance its investments
How much a business should return to its owners and how much should it re-invest
What a business can do to enhance its value
PROGRAMME OUTLINE
Discuss different interests that make up the modern corporation and their different objectives, potential conflict and problems, how to convert a risk measure into a hurdle rate, and examine the cost of debt and resulting cost of capital
Investment analysis – consider what a project is and how to estimate project cash flows, and examine different decision rules for determining a good or acceptable investment
Evaluate financing choices made by a firm – how much to borrow, types of financing, approaches to coming up with optimal debt ratio
Examine how much firms pay in dividends and whether they should pay more or less
Explore determinants of intrinsic value in a company and what managers can do to enhance value
Programme Agenda
DAY 1
8.00 am – 9.00 am
Registration
9.00 am – 10.45 am
The Objectives in Corporate Finance
Dueling interests
First steps on hurdle rates
The programme will start with a discussion on the different interests that make up the modern corporation – managers, stockholders, lenders, analysts and society – and their different objectives. The potential for conflict is large and many problems can be traced to this conflict. We follow up with the first of the big questions in corporate finance - What is risk and how do we convert a risk measure into a hurdle rate?
10.45am – 11.00 am
Coffee break
11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Risk free rates & currencies
Risk premiums
Relative risk measures
We will then look at different models of risk and return, and how they can be used to assess hurdle rates in different currencies, countries and companies.
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm
Lunch break
1.30pm – 3.30 pm
From beta to cost of equity
Debt & its cost
Cost of capital
We end the first part of the programme by examining the cost of debt and the resulting cost of capital for a firm.
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm
Coffee break
3.45 pm – 5.30 pm
Measuring returns
Accounting returns & cash flows
Side costs & side benefits
In the second part of the programme, we turn our attention to investment analysis. In particular, we consider what a project is and how to estimate cashflows for projects. We will draw a distinction between accounting earnings and cashflows and examine different decision rules that can be used to determine whether an investment passes muster.
5.30 pm
End of Day 1
DAY 2
9.00 am – 10.45 am
The rest of investment analysis
The Financing Trade off
The optimal mix of debt & equity
In the third part of the programme, we evaluate the financing choices made by a firm in terms of both how much it chooses to borrow and what type of financing it uses. We look at different approaches to coming up with the optimal debt ratio for a firm and map out ways of getting from a firm’s current debt ratio to its optimal.
10.45am – 11.00 am
Coffee break
11.00 am – 12.30 pm
More on optimizing debt
The right type of financing for a firm
The financing principle
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm
Lunch break
1.30pm – 3.30 pm
Dividend policy
Should you return more cash or less?
Valuation 101
In the fourth part of the programme, we examine how much firms pay in dividends and whether they should pay more or less. In the process, we also look at when it makes sense to buy back stock rather than pay dividends. We will close by tying corporate finance decisions to value.
3.30 pm – 3.45 pm
Coffee break
3.45 pm – 5.30 pm
• Value Enhancement
Finally, we will bring all of these components together in a value assessment, which will tie to corporate decisions. Thus, we will explore the determinants of intrinsic value in a company and what managers can do to enhance value.
5.30 pm
End of programme
Methodology

Lecture, case studies, discussions and presentation of ideas.

This is not a theory or an academic class but an applied, big-picture class. As concepts are introduced, concepts, models and measures will be applied to two real companies: Disney and Indofood. The cost of equity and capital for both companies will be estimated, the right mix of debt and equity at these companies will be evaluated and whether their policies on returning (or not returning) cash to stockholders makes sense will be determined. The process will be closed by valuing both companies.

While the programme will be delivered lecture-style, it is an open session where participants are encouraged to be actively involved, not only by asking specific questions that they need answers to but also by bringing in their experiences and companies into the discussion. Participants are welcome to bring their laptop computers, as well as the financial statements of any company that they are interested in analyzing. Over the two days of the programme, participants will do a comprehensive corporate financial analysis of that company.
Participant Profile

Participants with a wide range of backgrounds, from those with little exposure to corporate finance to those with several years of experience, those who work at businesses (in corporate finance or general management), and those who value these businesses (portfolio managers, analysts)
Trainer

PROFESSOR Aswath Damodaran
Professor of Finance,
Stern School of Business, New York University
Professor Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He teaches the corporate finance and valuation courses in the MBA programme. He received his MBA and Ph.D from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in valuation, portfolio management and applied corporate finance. He has published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics and the Review of Financial Studies.

He has written four books on valuation (Damodaran on Valuation, Investment Valuation, The Dark Side of Valuation, The Little Book of Valuation), and two on corporate finance (Corporate Finance: Theory and Practice, Applied Corporate Finance: A User’s Manual). He has co-edited a book on investment management with Peter Bernstein (Investment Management), has a book on investment philosophies (Investment Philosophies) and one on “can’t miss” investment strategies, titled Investment Fables. He also has a book on the relationship between risk and value, Strategic Risk Taking, and his newest one is on how to connect storytelling to valuation entitled “Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business”.
Aswath was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1984 to 1986, where he received the Earl Cheit Outstanding Teaching Award in 1985. He has been at NYU since 1986, received the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by the graduating class) in 1988, 1991, 1992, 1999, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2013, and was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award (in 1990). He was profiled in Business Week as one of the top twelve business school professors in the United States in 1994 and was elected as the most popular business school professor in the US by MBA students across the country in a 2011 survey by Business Week. In 2012, he was chosen as one of the top ten business school professors in the world by Poets and Quants, and his blog, Musings on Markets, was selected by the Times of London as one of the top ten stock market blogs in the world. Of course, as with any finance-oriented post, it should be emphasized that past performance is not an indicator of future results.

In addition to his blog, Aswath has an active presence online, on Twitter (@AswathDamodaran) and with his website (http://www.damodaran.com). His corporate finance and valuation classes are carried online and on iTunes U (with more than 100,000 students on iTunes U), and his online classes were chosen as one of the top ten MOOCs in the world in 2012.

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