Considerable resources have been expended over the years debating the business tax treatment of market-purchased insurance versus self insurance. Following a long tradition, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service treats only the latter as acceptable evidence of risk shifting and therefore worthy of...

The literature on the role of duration and convexity in managing the interest rate risk of fixed-income contracts is concerned primarily with single-currency domestic applications. The dominant view appears to be that fixed-income risk management in the international setting involves a mere...

This paper seeks to draw attention to a flaw in the firm’s Free Cash Flow model and related statement widely accepted in Corporate Finance. We argue that the common offset of any Current Liabilities against Current Assets distorts the FCF size, composition, and volatility, thereby misstating...

Free Cash Flow (FCF) was adopted in the late 1980s as a financial tool to evaluate the firm and its individual projects. We question the procedure of calculating the FCF where a significant portion of Current Liabilities is offset against Current Assets, thereby creating the hybrid asset Net...