This session sets up the structure, themes and philosophy of the class. After laying out the themes for the class, I noted that this is a class about valuation in all of its many forms – different approaches (intrinsic, relative & contingent claim), different forums (for acquisitions, value enhancement, investing) and across different types of businesses (private & public, small and large, developed & emerging market). After spending some time laying out the script for the class (quizzes, exams, weekly tortures), I started on the introduction to valuation by giving you my reasons for doing valuation (to fight looming lemmingitis) and starting on the discussion of widely held misconceptions about valuations.reclass test: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Syllabus: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Project:
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Valuation Introduction: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Post class test: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Post class test solution:
http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pd…
Aswath Damodaran Session 1: Introduction To Class
