This book gives straightforward advice about how to make mergers and acquisitions work by focusing on the quintessential component, a proper valuation of the acquisition target. The book gives hands-on advice about how to actually undertake corporate valuation.

In Valuation: Avoiding the Winner's Curse, authors Kenneth R. Ferris and Barbara S. Pecherot Petitt will help you master both the science and the art of M&A valuation. Concise, realistic, and easy to use, it brings together the field's best "rules of thumb," compares every leading traditional and alternative approach, presents examples and case studies from many industries, and offers practical solutions for today's key accounting, reporting, and tax-related challenges.