CPD Course Overview

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Why Should You Attend This CPD Course?

This seminar provides a one day refresher and update on the main areas of corporate finance and an excellent opportunity for accountants to get up to speed quickly, with a renowned corporate finance expert.

What Will Be Covered?

Valuing Companies

• Valuation methods
• Valuation yardsticks.
• Valuing a company in a downturn. Valuing SMEs
• Valuing SMEs

Due Diligence

• The purpose and place of due diligence.
• Commercial due diligence.
• Financial due diligence.
• Other due diligence.

Case Study: Selling a Local Business

• Before the transaction – tidying up the business for sale and the optimizing tax structure.
• Rationale of the seller, buyer and financier.
• Valuing the business: differing perspectives.
• Steps in the transaction including due diligence.
• Negotiating the deal. Getting debt finance.
• The “Fee Haggle” Q & A

What You Will Walk Away With

The seminar will review developments in the marketplace using PowerPoint slides to lead the event. The seminar is punctuated with practical questions and exercises aimed at building on our knowledge. This event sees a large degree of interaction between the facilitator and the delegates. Questions and comments from participants are invited in order to generate a rounded discussion of today’s commercial realities. The seminar concludes with a step-by-step case study which follows a corporate finance transaction through its various stages and through the practical problems which often occur.

Who Should Attend?

• Practising accountants who are advising clients on corporate finance matters
• Accountants who are trusted advisors to business
• Accountants in business who wish to get up to speed on corporate finance topics
• Advisors who wish to examine current valuation techniques

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CPD Course Facilitator

Cormac Lucey

Cormac is a Chartered accountant with many years experience in industry and in corporate finance both in Ireland and in Germany. He also worked as a special Advisor to the Minister for Justice between 2003 and 2007. He is an Associate of the Irish Management Institute.