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Valid Value offers valuation tools for business valuation professionals. Users comprise a wide spectrum of professionals, from valuators, accountants and consultants to investment managers and financial directors. The advanced Excel models offer a unique combination of standardized calculation with maximum flexibility to analyse, forecast and determine the value of a business. All relevant valuation methods, like DCF WACC, DCF APV and multiples, in one model. The models link to databasexs with support data that is relevant to a valuation, like beta’s and multiples. Easily create valuation reports in PowerPoint or Word based on the valuation models using an add-in. The standard report Valid Value supplies provides a solid basis for every valuation but it is also possible to link the model to your own report format. The link between Excel and PowerPoint/Word is dynamic and changes in the Excel model can be implemented in the reports in Word or PowerPoint with a push of a button.

At SMERGERS, we define business valuation as a technique used to capture the true value of the business. Common approaches to business valuation include Discounted Cash Flow (DCF), trading comparables, and transaction comparables method. A company is held by two categories of owners, shareholders and debt holders. The value of a pure business that accrues to both categories of owners is called the enterprise value, whereas the value which accrues just to shareholders is the equity value (also called market cap for listed companies). Companies are compared using the enterprise value instead of equity value as debt and cash levels may vary significantly even between companies in the same industry. During an acquisition, depending on whether it is an asset purchase or a stock purchase, the valuation of appropriate elements of the business needs to be carried out. Investment bankers widely use this method to value a company during an acquisition.