Agribusiness Investment Valuation and Modelling

This book fills a gap between the many, some excellent, academic and business books written on agribusiness on the one hand, and the practical experience of private equity investment, business valuation and financial modelling on the other. This book covers: Agribusiness overview Private equity investment in agribusiness Agribusiness valuation Using Excel 2010 to create, use and audit financial models Key issues in agribusiness investment modelling The green dairy project The risks facing agribusiness Future developments Who should read this book? This book is designed for all those who work in private equity companies investing in agribusinesses, accountancy firms, valuers, advisory firms and others who are faced with the need to build, audit or analyse AIMs in Excel. It will also prove useful for those such as lawyers who have jobs that relate very closely to AIMs and yet for whom Excel models have sometimes been unknown or unhappy territory. Why should you read this book? The objective of the book is to provide a step-by-step guide to constructing a financial model for an agribusiness investment. There are documents you will need to create the models, and the model builds up step by step the answer to each exercise is the basis for the next. Depending on how much time you have available, and how able you need to be at building AIMs, there are also three ways of using the workbook you can build the models from scratch, testing your answer against the model provided at each stage and either using your own model going forward or the one provided by the author, or you can use the template at each stage (Excel 'Question' files), again testing your answer against the model answer provided.