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Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value
By: George M. NortoneBook Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Outlines an effective evaluation methodology for assessing the value of any organization
Valuation offers methods to accelerate the achievement of explicitly stated goals through external means and discusses the implications for valuation that would aid in the prioritization and execution of the most favorable strategies. Filled with numerous checklists and forms, this comprehensive resource addresses important valuation issues for many different situations.
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| Title of Business & Economics eBook: Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value | |
| Release Date: 11-19-2002 | |
| Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. |
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Valuation: Maximizing Corporate Value
Chapter One
Conduct Strategic Audit
If you don't know where you've been, then it's hard to figure out where you are. If you don't know where you are, how can you decide where you want to go? If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
There is great value in reviewing the road your organization has traveled to get it to the place it is today. An understanding of its historical functional emphasis (i.e., marketing, sales, production, finance, or research) helps paint a picture of the expertise resident in its people and systems. An organization achieves higher levels of success more quickly if it focuses on building on its strengths. A clear picture of how your organization's resources have been allocated over the years enables you to see where assets (people, capital, facilities, and equipment) have been deployed. By reviewing the returns associated with these investments, you will be able to make financial decisions with inherently more confidence and a higher expectation of superior results.
Accordingly, the process of identifying where you've been is both a qualitative and quantitative process. The strategic audit encompasses both of these aspects and will assist you in reviewing your organization's past performance. This multistage process results in a strong conceptual understanding of the strategic building blocks at your disposal and is the first step toward setting sound business goals and maximizing your organization's strategic value in the future.
It is important to remember that it is impossible for the organization's leader to know all asp
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