Week 13 Reading Reflection

The biggest surprise from this week’s reading about valuations is the checklist for analyzing a business. The author provides us with an extensive list of careful checklist that one should go through when trying to analyze a business. This list consisted of over 30 different kind of questions and complicated things like financial statements and other accounting breakdowns. On the news, there are always talks about companies merging and buying each other out and I always found it interesting how things like that were actually evaluated and done. From reading this chapter, I noticed it’s not something that is easily done and is a very long thought out process.

In this week’s reading, I did not have anything that was confusing. If I had to choose something that was a bit confusing, it would be about the methods for venture valuation. The chart was pretty hard to understand.

If I had a questions to ask the author, I would ask about pricing formula. I would want to know if the steps would have to be done in order or if it does not matter what order.

I didn’t find anything wrong with this week’s reading assignment. I still find it pretty hard to find anything that the author was wrong about week after week.