Title : 
Valuing private companies: a DEA approach
         
        
            Author : 
Paradi, Joseph C. ; Anadol, Burcu
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Toronto Univ., Ont., Canada
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
Traditionally, company valuation methods are based on discounted cash flows and liquidation values, but all have a number of known shortcomings. The application of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to finding comparable firms to the one under examination and predicting the market values of such companies is an extension of the market-based approach and is in contrast with other applications where DEA is used for assessing relative efficiencies. There are different approaches to DEA efficient and inefficient firms in this methodology
         
        
            Keywords : 
data envelopment analysis; company valuation methods; data envelopment analysis; market values prediction; market-based approach; private companies valuation; relative efficiencies assessment; Cost accounting; Data envelopment analysis; Equations; Manufacturing; Marketing and sales; Testing; Upper bound;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Management of Engineering and Technology, 2001. PICMET '01. Portland International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Portland, OR
         
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-890843-06-7
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/PICMET.2001.952261