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Advanced Accounting for Valuation1 dayClassroom
Introductory/Intermediate


Participants learn the accounting concepts for valuing companies and financial assets. These skills are critical to analyzing a variety of financial transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and spin-offs, and leveraged buyouts

M & A Accounting: Acquisition or Purchase Accounting, Minority Interests and Equity Accounting

  • Understand purchase accounting under US GAAP and IFRS, accounting for equity interests using equity accounting and proportional consolidation and dealing with minority interests.
  • Accounting for foreign subsidiaries and cumulative translation adjustments.
  • Goodwill and fair value measurement of consideration and identifiable assets acquired.
  • Practice consolidating companies’ financial statements.

Taxes

  • Understand the accounting behind deferred tax assets and liabilities.
  • Review examples of how deferred taxes are created.
  • Understand how to calculate a company’s effective tax rate and examples of permanent timing differences.
  • Understand the accounting behind tax loss carry forwards and carry backs.
  • Understand when companies can report tax credits on the income statement and when they cannot.

Pensions

  • Understanding pensions and pension accounting under IFRS and US GAAP
  • Understanding the components of the pension charge and the balance sheet information.
  • Using the disclosure notes to identify pension positions and analyze pension assumptions.
  • Cleansing the EBIT and EV to align pension treatments cross company and cross border for comparable company analysis and valuation.

Leases

  • Understand the accounting behind capitalized and operating leases.
  • Finding information about both capitalized and operating leases in the notes to the financial statements.
  • Understand how to convert an operating lease into a capitalized lease for a comparable valuation assignment.

Accounting for Stock Options

  • Understanding the current accounting for stock options under US GAAP and IFRS and the impact on earnings and the balance sheet.
  • Understanding the implications of stock options on taxation, valuation and comparable company analysis.

Earnings Per Share (EPS)

  • Understanding how to calculate basic and diluted Earnings Per Share (EPS).
  • Use the treasury method and as if converted method to estimate the potentially dilutive impact of options and convertibles.

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The accounting keys to valuing M&A and LBO deals

Pre-requisites

Basic financial accounting

Delegate Profile

Key accounting concepts used in valuation of companies and financial assets.