I come from a financial background, with several years of experience in finance and profitability across multiple financial institutions, as well as owning and operating a healthcare business.

I can confidently say that your financial education is not complete until you take Professor Damodaran's valuation course. The course broadens your perspective on global risks, country-specific considerations, and the implications of capital structure on value.

Ultimately, valuation is not just about arriving at a number. The real question is whether you will invest, hold, or exit an equity position. This course provides the framework and tools needed to answer that question with confidence.

Every investor develops a unique recipe for making decisions. Before creating your own, you must learn how to combine the right ingredients. This course is an excellent place to start.

I am very grateful to professor Damodaran and his staff for such phenomenal course he has given us that I really enjoyed. Without question, it is the best-in-class Investment valuation course offered globally as professor Damodaran is the best valuation authority worldwide! He combines incredible knowledge, wisdom and experience that he applies to real life examples resulting in an incredible learning experience for the class.

Just to give some examples, due to the course I have understood much better the main drivers of Intrinsic Valuation and specifically a concept that he teaches with amazing grace called Reinvestment, and how it relates to Growth. I also learned how to use Probability and Statistics in Relative valuation to obtain a price for an asset, which was very interesting. Applying Option theory to value investments is a topic I was not that familiar with and will start using in my profession. Finally, the lesson about recommendations on how to increase the value of your company was simply phenomenal.

Finally, the course is extremely well designed since it combines presentations, videos, lectures, articles, webcasts, blogs and online video conferences with Professor Damodaran, all of which make the course very dynamic and extremely attractive.

It is a course that will greatly benefit investment analysts, business owners, CEOs, CFOs and executives from M&A, Financial Planning, Business Development, Strategic Planning and Corporate Finance of any company.

Thank you!

For finance professionals operating within Corporate FP&A, business performance is often measured against static budgets, internal forecasts, and variance analysis. Taking Professor Aswath Damodaran’s Valuation course has fundamentally changed this paradigm, forcing me to view corporate performance through the prism of valuation.
It is not merely a course on modeling. Rather, it is a masterclass in corporate dissection, strategic narrative, and intellectual honesty. The most profound revelation of the course is that a true valuation is neither a cold, standalone spreadsheet nor a loose piece of creative storytelling. Instead, it requires constructing the right set of data and embedding those numbers seamlessly into a strong, cohesive storyline. The story drives the numbers, and the numbers discipline the story. Simultaneously, Professor Damodaran forces participants to confront a harsh truth: valuation is an exercise in managing our own preconceptions and unearthing the biases that can so easily distort true value.
For an FP&A professional like me working across multiple industry verticals, this course provides an invaluable toolset to disassemble any business into its constituent parts. I learned to deeply analyse diverse business models, evaluate operational and capital efficiency, dissect complex capital structures, and track exactly how effectively a company reinvests its generated cash back into the business for expansion.
This depth is driven by the unique teaching philosophy of the course. Professor Damodaran does not allow his students to passively absorb information. Through relentless, probing questions, he implores us to dig deeper into the data. Rather than accepting metrics at face value, he teaches us how to control for cross-industry differences, identify where a company sits in its corporate lifecycle, and establish the structural reasons behind the numbers.
Ultimately, this course bridges the gap between accounting reality and corporate strategy. For anyone in FP&A or corporate finance, it transforms valuation from a mechanical exercise into a vital craft. It has equipped me to look at any business, regardless of the industry vertical, and truly understand how value is created, protected, and destroyed.

amazing course

I had long admired Professor Damodaran’s work and was pleased to discover and complete this course in the fall of 2025. It was more challenging and required greater time commitment than I initially expected, but that ultimately made it more rewarding. The content was engaging and pushed me to develop a deeper, more rigorous understanding of business valuation. The capstone project was an excellent way to apply the concepts to a real company, and I look forward to putting this knowledge to use both personally and professionally.