Corporate Finance Institute – The Amazon Case Study (New Edition)
This elective course pulls together everything you have learned to project and value Amazon and present your findings using a detailed dashboard.
- Build an integrated three-statement model dealing with advanced topics like segment-level revenue, capital additions, finance leases, operating leases, and much more
- Perform DCF, comparable company and precedent transactions valuations
- Develop an investment recommendation for Amazon (Buy/Sell/Hold)
The Amazon Case Study
Welcome to CFI’s advanced financial modeling course – a case study on how to value Amazon.com, Inc (AMZN). This course is designed for professionals working in investment banking, corporate development, private equity, and other areas of corporate finance that deal with valuing companies and applying various methods of valuation.
This course is built on a case study of Amazon, where students are tasked with building a financial modeling and performing comparable company analysis to value AMZN shares and make an investment recommendation.
Through the course of the transaction, students will learn:
- How to build a detailed financial forecast of Amazon
- How to apply various valuation methodologies to derive an implied value for Amazon
- How to develop an investment recommendation on the shares of Amazon
- How to create a dashboard and summary output that highlights the most important information from the model
What You’ll Learn In The Amazon Case Study
- Use Amazon’s financial statements to build an integrated 3-statement financial forecast
- Learn how to structure an advanced valuation model effectively
- Set up all the assumptions and drivers required to build out the financial forecast and DCF model
- Create a 10-year forecast for Amazon’s business, including an income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, supporting schedules, and free cash flow to the firm (FCFF)
- Learn how to deal with advanced topics like segmented revenue, capital additions, finance leases, operating leases, and more
- Perform comparable company analysis (Comps) utilizing publicly available information
- Perform a Sum-Of-The-Parts (SOTP) valuation of Amazon, as well as consider precedent transactions, equity research price targets, and Amazon’s 52-week trading range
- Generate multiple operating scenarios to explore a range of outcomes and values for the business
- Perform detailed sensitivity analysis on key assumptions and assess the overall impact on equity value per share
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