This is a course material from the book Managerial Decision Making Under Risk and Uncertainty. The book is originally in Spanish and is untitled as Decisiones empresariales bajo riesgo e incertidumbre. The level of the book is basic. We use very few mathematics and it is expected to be used by...

When estimating future or pro forma financial statements and free cash flows we need to estimate future prices. In doing this we must estimate nominal increases in prices of many items, for instance selling prices, inputs prices (raw material, labor, overhead, etc.), cost of future debt, and...

La versión española de este artículo se puede encontrar en: 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=2685207' http://ssrn.com/abstract=2685207.We discuss the relevance of personal taxes on Tax Shields. Interest and taxes are the basis for defining an optimal capital structure. When personal taxes are...

The Spanish version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1997065This chapter is devoted to the definition and application of the “cost of capital” concept to the valuation of cash flows from different points of view. We present an approach to estimate the cost of debt and...

The Spanish version of this paper can be found at: "http://ssrn.com/abstract=1996731" http://ssrn.com/abstract=1996731 This teaching note is devoted to the definition and calculation of cash flows, namely, cash flow to debt, (CFD), cash flow to equity, (CFE), capital cash flow, (CCF), tax...

We argue that the Economic Value Added (EVA) is biased by design and will generally yield distorted assessment of both the operating and overall performance. Fundamentally, the scale of measurement bias depends on the interest tax shield actually obtained in a measurement period and on a book to...

This is an annotated appendix that accompanies the paper. In this note, we provide detailed commentary on a numerical example that illustrates the ideas that we discuss in the main paper. The numerical example is in Table18.10, Chapter 8, page 656, of the third edition of Corporate Finance,...

In this note, we extend a numerical example in the textbook by Berk & DeMarzo that matches methods for only when K_TS is equal to K_D. We show that there is a generalized formulation for the return to levered equity K_E that works for any value of K_TS, the appropriate discount rate for the tax...

This is a draft of Chapter 1 for an upcoming book on Financial Modeling & Valuation. Informally, the chapter introduces the basic concepts in cash flow valuation. It reviews the different types of finite cash flows and discusses the cost of capital with and without taxes in a world with perfect...

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation, published by Academic Press, Elsevier, in 2004, is the only book available that focuses exclusively on cash flow valuation, with a special emphasis on the Capital Cash Flow (CCF) approach.This text provides a comprehensive and practical, market-based framework...