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Updated at February 14th, 2021

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  • Reverse Mortgage Definition
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  • Riegle Neal Interstate Banking Act Definition
  • Right of Offset Definition
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  • Routing Transit Number Definition
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  • Waterfall Payment Scheme Definition
  • Without Recourse Definition
  • Wrap-Around Loan Definition
  • Wraparound Mortgage Definition
  • Write Down (Mortgage) Definition
  • Wrongful Dishonor Definition

Business and Personal Finance

  • Abandonment Value Definition
  • Absolute Percentage Growth Definition
  • Absolute Value Definition
  • Accelerated Dividend Definition
  • Accounts Receivable Financing Definition
  • Accredited in Business Valuations Definition
  • Adjusted Present Value Definition
  • Airdrop (Cryptocurrency) Definition
  • Anticipation Note Definition
  • Appropriation Definition
  • Assessed Value Definition
  • Asset Valuation Reserve Definition
  • Asset-Based Approach Definition
  • At a Discount Definition
  • At a Premium Definition
  • Book to Market Ratio Definition
  • Bridge Financing Definition
  • Bucket (Finance) Definition
  • Burn Rate (Finance) Definition
  • Business Company Valuation Methods Explained
  • Business Credit Score Definition
  • Business Funding Overview
  • Business Valuation Definition
  • CAPE Ratio Definition
  • CapEx Definition
  • Capital Definition
  • Capital Budgeting Definition
  • Capital Dividend Definition
  • Capital Expenditures Definition
  • Capital Formation Definition
  • Capital Stock Definition
  • Capital Stock Defined
  • Capital Structure Definition
  • Capitalization Definition
  • Capitalization of Earnings Definition
  • Capitalization of Profits Definition
  • Captive Finance Company Definition
  • Cash-Flow Financing Definition
  • Certified Financial Planner Definition
  • Chartered Asset Manager Definition
  • Chartered Business Valuator Definition
  • Cockroach Theory Definition
  • Comparable Transaction Definition
  • Comparables Definition
  • Compound Annual Growth Rate Definition
  • Comps (Comparables) Definition
  • Conduit Financing Definition
  • Corporate Finance Definition
  • Cost Approach to Real Estate Valuation Definition
  • Cost of Capital Definition
  • Cost of Equity Definition
  • Cost of Living Adjustment Definition
  • Debenture Definition
  • Debt Financing Definition
  • Deleverage Definition
  • Delta (Finance) Definition
  • Devolvement Definition
  • Discount Rate (Bank Rate and Cash Flow) Explained
  • Discounted Cash Flow Definition
  • Earnings Basis Definition
  • Earnings Before Interest Taxes Depreciation and Amortization (EBITDA) Definition
  • EBITDA Business Valuation Multiple Definition
  • Employee Profit Sharing Plan Explained
  • Endowment Definition
  • Equity Financing Definition
  • Extrinsic Value Definition
  • Financial Planner Definition
  • Fixed vs Variable Costs Definition
  • Free Cash Flow Definition
  • Fully Diluted Shares Definition
  • Going Concern Value Definition
  • Hurdle Rate Definition
  • Illiquid (asset) Defined
  • Illiquid Definition
  • Income Approach (Valuation) Definition
  • Internal Rate of Return Definition
  • Intrinsic Value (Company) Definition
  • Irrelevance Proposition Theorem Definition
  • Leveraged Buyback Definition
  • Leveraged Recapitalization Definition
  • Levered Beta Definition
  • Levered Free Cash Flow Definition
  • Lifetime Value of Customer Definition
  • Lintners Model Definition
  • Liquidation Value Definition
  • Mid-Cap Company Shares Definition
  • Mosaic Theory Definition
  • Multistage Dividend Discount Model Definition
  • Net Present Value Definition
  • No Par Value Stock Definition
  • Off Balance Sheet Financing Definition
  • Operating Budget Definition
  • Payback Period Definition
  • Payment in Kind Definition
  • PEG Payback Period Definition
  • Pre-Money Valuation Definition
  • Present Value Definition
  • Price Earnings Ratio (PE Ratio) Definition
  • Price Earnings to Growth (PEG) Ratio Definition
  • Price to Book Ratio Definition
  • Price to Cash Flow Ratio Definition
  • Price Variance Definition
  • Private Activity Bond Definition
  • Private Finance Initiative Definition
  • Private Person Bond Definition
  • Q Ratio (Tobins Q) Definition
  • Rate of Return Definition
  • Recapitalization Definition
  • Recurring Revenue Definition
  • Reinvestment Rate Definition
  • Relative Valuation Model Definition
  • Replacement Chain Method Definition
  • Reprice (Stock Options) Definition
  • Revenue Cap Regulation Definition
  • Revenue-Based Financing Definition
  • Royalty Based Financing Definition
  • Run Rate Definition
  • Senior Security Definition
  • Shoestring Budget
  • Slush Fund Definition
  • Structured Finance Definition
  • Sum of Parts Valuation Definition
  • Sunk Cost Dilemma Definition
  • Terminal Value Definition
  • Times-Revenue Method Definition
  • Total Cost of Ownership Definition
  • Total Enterprise Value Definition
  • Traditional Theory of Capital Structure Definition
  • Treasury Stock Method Definition
  • Unlevered Beta Definition
  • Unlevered Cost of Capital Definition
  • Unlevered Free Cash Flow Definition
  • Unquoted Public Company Definition
  • Variable Cost Definition
  • Warehouse Financing Definition
  • Weighted Average Cost of Capital Definition
  • Weighted Average Cost of Equity Definition
  • Working Capital Definition

Business Valuation Methods

Overview of Valuation Methods

Asset-Based (Cost-Based) Methods

  • Overview of Asset-Based (Cost-Based) Methods
  • Book Value (and Adjusted Book Value) Methods
  • Replacement Value
  • Liquidation Value

Market-Based Methods

  • Overview of Market Approaches
  • Types of Comparables
  • Common Characteristic-Based Ratios & Multiples
  • Issues with Market-Based Valuation Methods

Income-Based Methods

  • Overview of Income-Based Valuation
  • Earnings Capitalization Method
  • Build-Up Method
  • Discount Future Cash Flows
  • Excess Earnings Method
  • Economic Value Added Method
  • Value of Dividends Method

Investor Valuation Methods

  • Pre and Post-Money Calculations
  • Angel Investor Methods
  • Venture Capital Method
  • First Chicago Method
  • Strategic Considerations in Valuation

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