THE PRICE OF EVERYTHING, THE VALUE OF NOTHING

Every valuation report in India is missing a number.Not because the information is hidden. Because the analytical framework was never designed to find it. The governance failure that brought down IL&FS. The environmental liability that closed Tirupur’s textile cluster. The community consent that blocked Vedanta’s Niyamgiri mine. The water table that is not in the DCF. The invisible premium that ITC, Mahindra, and Tata have built over decades - and that no conventional model prices correctly.The Price of Everything, The Value of Nothing is a practitioner’s guide to ESG-adjusted business valuation for the Indian context. Through six landmark Indian cases and one complete framework, Harsha Ramnani - Fellow CA, Registered Valuer (IBBI), and GRI-Certified ESG professional - shows exactly how Environmental, Social, and Governance factors enter the valuation model: as specific numbers, not qualitative footnotes.The book provides a 30-question ESG materiality checklist, a five-dimension Governance Quality Score, a water risk pricing methodology, and model report language - everything a Registered Valuer needs to produce a complete, defensible ESG-adjusted valuation.For Registered Valuers, CFOs, investment professionals, independent directors, and lenders whose decisions depend on valuations being complete.The price of everything was never the value of nothing.