KPMG Friday Mid-Afternoon Chat on ‘101s of Discounted Cash Flow Valuations’ today

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Ajantha Weerasekara

The KPMG Sri Lanka Academy presents the 17th virtual session of the ‘Friday Mid-Afternoon Chat’ series. This week’s webinar will be on ‘101s of Discounted Cash Flow Valuations’ conducted by KPMG in Sri Lanka Principal, Advisory Ajantha Weerasekara.

The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method is one of the most commonly applied absolute valuation techniques, which has a solid theoretical support in terms of time value of money, opportunity cost of capital, capital structure and value of firms, etc. DCF method is also quite popular as it can be customised well to match different business models, industries and scenarios, while other valuation techniques may not offer that much flexibility.

However, these benefits come with inherent risks associated with the methodology, where the practitioners will have to come up with a number of assumptions and inputs, on which DCF method relies heavily. The output in terms of the valuation given by the DCF method will be as good as the reasonableness of the assumptions and inputs employed by the users.

Given these complexities, it is important to understand the basics of the DCF method in order to understand when and how to apply the technique for whatever the purpose that we have, which will be covered on this Friday Mid Afternoon Chat. This will be the first of a series of webinars on DCF methodology, which we are planning to bring to you through our Friday Midafternoon Chat series.

The session is scheduled for 23 April (Friday) from 3 p.m. onwards.

For registrations contact Seneli on 074 061 0783 or [email protected].