The Economics of Business Valuation

Zusatztext "This book belongs on the bookshelf of serious students of business valuation because it presents forward-looking concepts that will most likely become generally accepted business valuation practice as our profession continues to evolve. For those with a penchant for research, this book provides a cornucopia of future research topics in business valuation. At a retail price of less than $100, this book is a great value. The author, Mr. Anderson, should be commended for introducing novel valuation concepts to the business valuation community." Informationen zum Autor Patrick L. Anderson founded Anderson Economic Group in 1996 and serves as a Principal and Chief Executive Officer in the company. His recent books include Applied Game Theory and Strategic Behavior and Business, Economics, and Finance with Matlab, GIS, and Simulation Models . Klappentext This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, ultimately arguing that the "value functional" approach to business assessment avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders in a business valuation. Zusammenfassung This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, ultimately arguing that the "value functional" approach to business assessment avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders in a business valuation. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Economics of Business Valuation: Towards a Value Functional Approach Author(s): Patrick L. Anderson For decades, the traditional approaches to business valuation (market, asset, and income) have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book presents an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. It ultimately argues that the "value functional" approach to business valuation avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information held by stakeholders. To remedy the shortcomings of existing theory, the author proposes a new definition of the firm that is consistent with the principle that entrepreneurs maximize value, not profit. 1 Modern Value Quandaries The author traces the importance of the business, company, or firm in Economics, society, and world history over two millennia. The author notes that, given its importance and centrality in modern economies, there should be a well-developed theory of the firm that pervades both Economics and Finance. However, a series of "quandaries" are posed that illustrate that this is not the case. These include the fact that neoclassical economics essentially ignores the firm, that mainstream Economics largely ignores the entrepreneur, and that real entrepreneurs do not maximize profits. Furthermore, much of Finance focuses on publicly-traded firms, while 99% of firms are privately held, and mathematical finance often assumes complete markets, which are a rarity in the actual world. These provocative statements motivate much of the theory and applications developed in the rest of the book. 2 Methods and Theories of Value This chapter reviews the common definition of "market value" in Economics, and the practical use of the term in tax, accounting, and other fields. It then introduces ten different valuation theories. Among these are three different valuation principles derived from the Economics literature, three ...

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Patrick L. Anderson founded Anderson Economic Group in 1996 and serves as a Principal and Chief Executive Officer in the company. His recent books include Applied Game Theory and Strategic Behavior and Business, Economics, and Finance with Matlab, GIS, and Simulation Models.

Klappentext

This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, ultimately arguing that the "value functional" approach to business assessment avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders in a business valuation.

Zusammenfassung

For decades, the market, asset, and income approaches to business valuation have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book brings to light an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. It ultimately argues that the "value functional" approach to business valuation avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information set held by stakeholders.

Much of what we know about corporate finance and mathematical finance derives from a narrow subset of firms: publicly traded corporations. The value functional approach can be readily applied to both large firms and companies that do not issue publicly traded stocks and bonds, cannot borrow without constraints, and often rely upon entrepreneurs to both finance and manage their operations. With historical side notes from an international set of sources and real-world exemplars that run throughout the text, this book is a future-facing resource for scholars in economics and finance, as well as the academically minded valuation practitioner.

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The Economics of Business Valuation: Towards a Value Functional Approach

Author(s): Patrick L. Anderson

For decades, the traditional approaches to business valuation (market, asset, and income) have taken center stage in the assessment of the firm. This book presents an expanded valuation toolkit, consisting of nine well-defined valuation principles hailing from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, taxation, and management. It ultimately argues that the "value functional" approach to business valuation avoids most of the shortcomings of its competitors, and more correctly matches the actual motivations and information held by stakeholders. To remedy the shortcomings of existing theory, the author proposes a new definition of the firm that is consistent with the principle that entrepreneurs maximize value, not profit. 1Modern Value Quandaries The author traces the importance of the business, company, or firm in Economics, society, and world history over two millennia. The author notes that, given its importance and centrality in modern economies, there should be a well-developed theory of the firm that pervades both Economics and Finance. However, a series of "quandaries" are posed that illustrate that this is not the case. These include the fact that neoclassical economics essentially ignores the firm, that mainstream Economics largely ignores the entrepreneur, and that real entrepreneurs do not maximize profits. Furthermore, much of Finance focuses on publicly-traded firms, while 99% of firms are privately held, and mathematical finance often assumes complete markets, which are a rarity in the actual world. These provocative statements motivate much of the theory and applications developed in the rest of the book. 2Methods and Theories of Value This chapter reviews the common definition of "market value" in Economics, and the practical use of the term in tax, accounting, and other fields. It then introduces ten different valuation theories. Among these are three different valuation principles derived from the Economics literature, three traditional methods of valuation, three from Mathematical Finance, and one novel principle that emerges from both Economics and Control Theory. Each of these is based on principles distinct from each other, in the sense that each fundamentally derives "value" from a different source. 3The Failure of the Neoclassical Investment Rule This chapter presents telling evidence that the value of a firm is no…