Chapter 1: Introduction -- PART 1: VALUATION -- Chapter 2: From business models to business planning -- Chapter 3: Profitability, Intangible Value creation, and scalability patterns -- Chapter 4: Boosting sustainable growth with innovative intangibles -- Chapter 5: Cherry Picking Intermediaries:...

This book offers a primer on the valuation of startups. Innovative startups are characterized by high growth potential that usually absorbs liquidity. This is unattractive for traditional banks, replaced by other specialized intermediaries such as venture capital or private equity funds, which...

An intangible is a non-monetary asset that manifests itself by its economic properties. It does not have physical substance but grants rights and economic benefits to its owner. The examination of the general approaches of valuation of companies is preliminary to the estimation of assets such as...

Today, the determination of a company's value is mostly based on the discounted cash flow method (DCF method). In doing so, planned values of the cash flows (or income/flow-to-equity) provided by the company are usually discounted to the present with a calculated a discount rate based on the...

The know-how expresses the concept of "know-how", straddling the organization in series and technology, legally protected as an industrial secret. The sharing and transferability of know-how is the basis of its economic appraisal, which is based on complementary methodologies projecting the...

Purpose: This paper aims to detect how intangibles can create scalable, synergistic and externally perceived value, softening debt constraints that traditionally affect IC.Design/Methodology/Approach: A comprehensive IC valuation approach is theoretically linked to measurable accounting sources,...