Vélez-Pareja and Tham, 2003a, Vélez-Pareja and Tham, 2003b and Tham and Vélez-Pareja, 2004 showed the matching between discounted cash flow (DCF) methods and value added methods. They departed from the net operating profit less adjusted taxes NOPLAT and net income when using market values to...

En Vélez-Pareja y Tham (2003), se presentó la forma de hacer coincidir los métodos de valor agregado (utilidad económica (UE) (Residual Income Method, RIM) y el valor económico agregado (VEA) (Economic Value Added, EVA)) y los métodos de flujo de caja descontado (discounted cash flow,...

In cash flow valuation (CFV), there are two main categories of mistakes: derivation of the appropriate cash flows and estimation of the cost of capital. A simple-minded view of the world would suggest that with near perfect capital markets, the presence of arbitrage would severely punish...

La mayoría de los libros de finanzas (Véase Benninga y Sarig, 1997, Brealey, Myers y Marcus, 1996, Copeland, Koller y Murrin, 1994, Damodaran, 1996, Gallagher y Andrew, 2000, Van Horne, 1998, Vélez, 1998, Weston, y Copeland, 1992) estipulan que el costo promedio de capital (CPC) se calcula...

This article explores the behavior of the stock market in Colombia with the information given by the Bolsa de Bogota Index (Indice de la Bolsa de Bogota, IBB). The index is analyzed from January, 1930 to December, 1998. The inflation rate covers the same period; the inflation rate as measured by...

Resumen En la creación o la valoración de una empresa es muy importante contar con estados financieros proyectados confiables y consistentes para poder tomar las decisiones apropiadas para el inicio y seguimiento de la firma. En esta guía mostramos paso a paso y de una manera muy clara el...

This teaching note shows the relationship between levered and unlevered betas and the general formulation for the cost of equity. It also shows, step by step, the procedure to estimate betas from data found in the stock market.It shows well known procedures for estimating betas: correlation...

This is a case for teaching. This case shows through several examples that the Net Present Value for project evaluation should be calculated based on estimates at current prices. It has been a widespread practice to evaluate projects at constant prices with a great deal of -today- unnecessary...

Practitioners and teachers very easily break some consistency rules when doing or teaching valuation of assets. In this short and simple note we present a practical guide to call the attention upon the most frequent broken consistency rules. They have to do firstly with the consistency in the...