Asset Based Valuation Flashcards
Defined by the industry as transactions that would yield future economic benefits as a result of past transactions.
Assets
It is highly dependent on the value that the asset will generate from now until the future.
Value of invested opportunities
Investments that started from scratch.
Green Field Investments
Investments that are already in the going concern state; Opportunities that can either be partially or fully operational.
Brown Field Investments
Businesses that has a long term to infinite operational period.
Going Concern Business Opportunities
They suggest that risk management principles must observed in doing business and determining its value.
Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commision (COSO)
According to COSO, the benefits of having a sound Enterprise-wide Risk Management allows the company to:
- Increase the opportunities.
- Facilitate management and identification of the risk factors that affect the business.
- Identify or create cost-efficient opportunities.
- Manage performance variability.
- Improve management and distribution of resources across the enterprise.
- Make the business more resilient to abrupt changes.
This approach only focuses on the current and historical value of the assets and will disregard the value it can generate in the future and may not fully represent the true value of the assets.
Asset-based valuation
Information required for asset-based valuation:
The financing structure
Classes of equity
Other sources of funding
The popular methods used to determine the value using assets as its bases:
- Book Value Method
- Replacement Value Method
- Reproduction Value Method
- Liquidation Value Method
The value recorded in the accounting records of a company.
Book Value Method
This method uses the asset values as presented on the statement of financial position less the liabilities.
Book Value Method
This method is highly dependent on the value of the assets as declared in the audited financial statements, particularly the balance sheet or the statement of financial position.
Book Value Method
The assets are required to be categorized into 2.
Current and Non-current assets.
Assets that are expected to be realized within the company’s normal operating cycle, expected to be realized within 12 months after these transactions were reported, or held primary for the purpose of trading.
Current Assets