What problem does it solve? Capital-allocation decisions often fail because analysts use the wrong discount rate, count sunk costs, blend synergies into one number, or accept a deal price without testing it against the deal's stated motive. This Skill enforces a disciplined, evidence-based process for judging whether a project creates value or whether an acquisition price is justified. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Project evaluation: Builds incremental cash flow streams that exclude sunk costs and allocated overhead, charges side costs like cannibalization and excess capacity, and runs NPV, IRR, MIRR, payback, and ranking tests via deterministic Python scripts. - Acquisition pricing: Computes the four numbers (price, status quo value, restructured value, synergy value), applies the acid test for the stated motive, audits the seven deal sins, and states who captures the synergy at the proposed price. - Use Case: An orchestrator agent hands this Skill a mandate for an acquisition; it builds the target's own cost of capital, benchmarks restructuring levers, haircuts claimed synergies, and returns a maximum price with a verdict. ## Quick Start Ask the valuation orchestrator to run the investment stage on a project or acquisition mandate and it will delegate the analysis to this Skill automatically.
