Overview of valuation -- Forecasting and valuing cash flows -- Project risk analysis -- Estimating a firm's cost of capital -- Estimating required rates of return for projects -- Forecasting financial performance -- Earnings dilution, incentive compensation, and project selection -- Relative...

This paper examines the importance of financial constraints for firm investment expenditures by looking at the relationship between investment expenditures and proceeds from voluntary asset sales in financially healthy US manufacturing companies. Specifically, we examine whether asset sales have...