In this article we use a real life case from an emerging country to illustrate the valuation with discounted cash flow methods, witch include complexities such as unpaid taxes, losses carried forward, foreign exchange debt, presumptive income and inflation adjustments to the Financial...

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...

The English version of this paper can be found at 'http://ssrn.com/abstract=1655244' http://ssrn.com/abstract=1655244.Se presenta la derivación de costo de capital bajo la premisa del ahorro de impuestos de riesgo descuento con el costo de capital apalancado. Se demuestra que la formulación es...

In a world with taxes, there is a small discrepancy between the deflated WACC WACCDef and the real wacc. This is due to the (1-T) term that is in the standard expression for the WACC applied to the Free Cash Flow (FCF). We compare different approaches for valuing nominal and real cash flows with...

In this note we analyze the tutorial based on the McKinsey methodology for valuing companies. We have found that the McKinsey methodology has one of the most common mistakes mentioned in Tham and Vélez-Pareja (2004a and b): valuing cash flows with a constant cost of capital when the leverage is...

We discuss some ideas useful when forecasting financial statements that are based on historical data. The chapter is organized as follows: First we discuss the relevance of prospective analysis for non traded firms. In a second section we a basic reviews of subjects that will be needed for...

In this teaching note we show that using the findings of Tham and Velez-Pareja 2002, for finite cash flows, Ke and hence WACC depend on the discount rate that is used to value the tax shield, TS and as expected, Ke and WACC are not constant with Kd as the discount rate for the tax shield, even...