Practitioners and academics in valuation include changes in liquid assets (potential dividends) in the cash flows. This widespread and wrong practice is inconsistent with basic finance theory. We present economic, theoretical, and empirical arguments to support the thesis. Economic arguments...

Although we know there exists a simple approach to solve the circularity between value and the discount rate, known as the Adjusted Present Value proposed by Myers, 1974, it seems that practitioners still rely on the traditional Weighted Average Cost of Capital, WACC approach of weighting the...

In this work we explain the proper use of perpetuities and the value of them. We consider two cases: calculating the value on period zero when the perpetuity starts with a given cash flow in period 1 and when it starts from a cash flow in period zero and it grows in period 1 at a given rate (as...

Based on a theoretically correct model we examine the value the market assigns to different components of the cash flow to equity including potential" dividends. We study publicly traded firms from five Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru during the period...

In this teaching note I list some suggestions that might be useful to take into account when forecasting financial statements departing from historical data. The ideas presented in this note are the result of advising undergraduate and graduate students in the course Econ 195.96/295.96...

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. El capitulo once estudia la valoracion de proyectos y empresas en un ambiente inflacionario. Se muestra como...

Estas son slides de notas de clase (en .pdf) del tema Analisis Financiero y control que se encuentra ya en SSRN. En estos slides se explica detalladamente los diferentes ratios financieros usados frecuentemete en administracion financiera. Introducimos algunos ejemplos y los slides sirven para...

Todo el mundo usa los ahorros en impuestos, AI o escudos fiscales cuando se calcula elCosto Promedio Ponderado de Capital (CPPC) en inglés Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC). Esta formula de los libros de texto incluye el AI cuando se introduce el factor (1-T) que afecta la contribución...

Este es material de curso del libro Decisiones Empresariales bajo Riesgo e Incertidumbre. El nivel del libro es basico. Se usan muy pocas matematicas y puede ser usado por gerentes. El capitulo seis estudia la construccion apropiada de estados financieros. Se presentan el Estados de resultados,...

Since the Modigliani and Miller 1958 seminal paper, there has been a problem posed by the fact that the discount rate to value cash flows depends on the value of thesecash flows. This gives raise to the circularity problem.In this paper we propose an analytical solution to this circularity...