Talk:Valuation (finance)

message: IT company generally have intangible assets as in the form of softcodes,if the company goes for liquidiation,the market value of these codes is nowhere as compare to the inputs of preparing it(huge technical staff costs,machines and technology involved)
This is the primary reason that IT companies are debt free or they are not levered to huge extents.This means Tax-Sheilds are very less in case of IT firms.They are generally equity financed or internally financed.Valuation of an IT company is completely based on expected cash flows.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jain puneet (talk • contribs) 13:23, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valuing an IT company 

message: Valuing Businesses in M&A is very critical.It is Unwinding the worth of busines not just its assets.However,its not neccessary that value drivers will appear on Balance Sheet like innovative and creative staff would not be mentioned in the firm's accounting statements.
It is availability of Data which decides what Method to use to value a firm.But,generally more than one method is used to endorse the common understanding.Difference in value would be due to information asymmetry,Transaction Costs etc.Jain puneet (talk) 16:00, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valuing Business in Mergers & Acquisitions 

message: This article starts off with some challenges. I'm fine with saying that valuation is the process of determining a value (although that's not much of a statement). However, the present sentences flawed in three ways. First it only talks about assets. As noted in the second sentence one can also value a liability. One can also value net worth which is roughly speaking the difference between assets and liabilities — this can get a little complicated but in some circumstances it is not as simple as a straight subtraction. However that last points probably beyond the scope of this introductory discussion. Second, while the present value is and important special case, so important it probably dominates valuation theory, it is not the only date at which assets can be valued. The concept of valuation is broader than simply present values. I won't mind if we start with a broad definition and then immediately restrict this article to the special case of present value but let's not pretend that all valuation is present value. Third, there's an odd restriction that it's not valuation unless it's done by someone authorized to do so. While it might be very common that the person doing the valuation is authorized to do so there's nothing intrinsic in the concept of valuation that requires any authorization. Most people who buy a security do some (admittedly crude) valuations and an almost no cases have they received any specific authorization to do the valuation.
The third sentence talks about doing valuations on assets… or intangible assets. This is sloppy English. Perhaps it should be tangible assets or intangible assets.--S Philbrick(Talk) 00:47, 13 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead problems 

message: Hi all. Following recent article changes to Business valuation - the scale is now re "business broker" deals - I propose moving Business valuation #Option pricing approaches to this article. Comments welcome. Fintor (talk) 07:11, 14 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Move option section here