Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo estudia las consecuencias del uso de algunas razones financieras sin tomar en cuenta el efecto del valor del dinero en el tiempo, esto es, inflación y tasas de interés. Es interesante observar que cuando se escribió y publicó este trabajo, las NIIF no eran muy...

This is a course material (slides) for 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. It handles very few mathematics and it is expected to...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1570718Este capítulo está dedicado a la definición y aplicación del concepto del 'costo de capital' y la valoración de los flujos de caja desde diferentes puntos de vista. Se presenta un método para estimar el costo...

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=1557845.This chapter 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 savings, (TS) and free cash flow, (FCF). The...

Este capítulo se dedica a la definición y el cálculo del valor terminal que es el valor de los flujos de caja que se generan en la firma o proyecto más allá del último período de la proyección. Se consideran situaciones con y sin crecimiento real y con y sin inflación. Se derivan las...

I identify three sources of risk for the tax shields: two of them associated to the risk of debt and one associated to the operating risk. I present a set of conditions for defining risky debt associated to cash flow and not to accounting earnings. I explain why realization of tax shields for...

This is a course material (slides in pdf format) from the book Investment Decision Making. For Firm and Project Valuation. The book is originally in Spanish and is untitled as Decisiones de inversión. Para la valoración financiera de proyectos y empresas.Chapter Four includes the study of...

In this chapter we deal with the popular methods for appraising investments: the Net Present Value NPV, the Internal Rate of Return IRR and the profitability Index or Benefit Cost Ratio B/CR. We use intensively the spreadsheet.We also present critically a popular method ie the Payback Period...

The purpose of this paper is to present a procedure to include the implicit assumptions of Net Present Value NPV in the Internal Rate of Return, IRR, and the profitability index (benefit-cost ratio B/CR). The resulting indicators are the weighted IRR (WIRR) and the expanded B/CR (EB/CR). These...

The value of debt tax shields in foundational corporate valuation models by Nobel Laureates Modigliani and Miller (MM) continues to be a controversial issue that is central to our understanding of corporate finance. This paper argues that a fundamental valuation problem exists in the MM tax...