Master Course Valuation & Corporate Finance

Two day program: 3 and 4 April, 2008
Location: AIF, Amsterdam
Open to: NEVIR members and holding professionals Listed members
Who should attend: IR professionals, holding professionals in Communications, Legal Affairs, Treasury, External Reporting and others that (in)directly are involved in investor relations
Costs: € 1.950,-

"Do you want to gain more in-depth know how on valuing companies? Improve your understanding of the relationship between EVA as a management tool and valuations?. How to value the synergies when acquiring another company? Want to learn from one of the top value experts of INSEAD?"

The NEVIR course "Valuations & Corporate Finance" was created to meet those needs. This course has been designed in cooperation with the Amsterdam Institute of Finance (AIF) Professor Maenhout of INSEAD. Upon request AIF will provide certificates of completion to participants who successfully attend and complete the program.

Goals and Objectives

The purpose of this program is to acquire an overall understanding of the fundamentals of Corporate Finance and Corporate Financial Management, and covers Value-Based Management and Company Valuation.

At the end of this program, participants will have a firm grasp of the key concepts and tools needed to:

• Analyze, understand and communicate a firm's financial performance (Financial Analysis)
• Evaluate investment projects and identify their relevant cash flows (Capital Budgeting)
• Understand investor's expectations of risk and return (Portfolio Theory)
• Interpret and measure the price of risk for investment projects (Cost of Capital)
• Value a company, its bonds, shares and other securities (Company Valuation and DCF).

The program is a blend of lectures and case discussions.

Location: Amsterdam Institute of Finance, Amsterdam
Pascal Maenhout will be the teacher of this two day master course. Pascal Maenhout is Professor of Finance at INSEAD, where he teaches corporate finance, portfolio theory and capital markets in MBA, PhD and Executive programs. He has previously taught at Harvard University.

The course is set up for IR professionals and all other holding professionals who deal, directly or indirectly, with Investor Relations. On request of a number of our members the course will be held in English and is open to all NEVIR members and holding professionals of listed company members.

If you and/or a holding colleague are interested to participate please contact Monique Stroomberg at monique.stroomberg@nevir.nl.
For more information on the content of the program please contact Annegien Blokpoel at annegien.blokpoel@perspexo.com or 06-5268 1836.

AS THE AVAILABILITY OF PLACES IS LIMITED, SWIFT ENROLLMENT IS ADVISED.