Valuation and Sustainability: A Guide to Include Environmental, Social, and Governance Data in Business Valuation

Do you want to know how to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) data into business valuation? This book co-written by Mathieu Joubrel, co-founder of ValueCo, Dejan Glavas, Laurent Inard, Frédéric Le Meaux, Paul Jouy et Elena Maksimovich will help you do so.

It is mainly aimed at two types of audiences: financial practitioners and students. Practitioners will find this book of interest because it will allow them to access academic knowledge in a format that is tailored to them. Academic research has made substantial progress in the area of business valuation and ESG. This book aims to transform this knowledge into practical and rigorous methodologies for taking ESG into account when valuing a company.

Readers who do not have prior knowledge of corporate valuation will be guided through the ESG integration process. They will first be introduced to the concept of value and the motivations for integrating ESG into valuation. They will then learn simple financial methods for valuing businesses and see step-by-step use cases. For example, readers will learn how to value a business in the renewable energy sector using cash flow and multiple valuation methods. After learning about traditional business valuation, readers will have a better understanding of ESG data and ratings. They will then learn how to integrate ESG into the valuation of companies using various approaches. Again, readers will be able to replicate these methods, as the book provides practical cases for integrating ESG data into corporate valuation. Finally, for readers who want to go a step further, they will discover the latest advances in academic research in ESG and corporate valuation.