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A Practical Guide for Consistency in Valuation: Cash Flows, Terminal Value and Cost of Capital

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  • Ignacio Vélez Pareja
  • Antonio Burbano Pérez

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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 matching of the cash flows, this is, the free cash flow (FCF), the cash flow to debt (CFD), the cash flow to equity (CFE) and the tax savings or tax shield (TS). Secondly, they have to do with the proper expression for the cost of unlevered equity with finite cash flows and perpetuities. Thirdly, they have to do with the consistency between the terminal value and growth for the FCF and the terminal value and growth for the CFE. And finally, the proper determination of the cost of capital either departing from the cost of unlevered equity (Ku) or the cost of levered equity (Ke). In the Appendixes we show some algebraic derivations and an example.

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  • Ignacio Vélez Pareja & Antonio Burbano Pérez, 2003. "A Practical Guide for Consistency in Valuation: Cash Flows, Terminal Value and Cost of Capital," Proyecciones Financieras y Valoración 1927, Master Consultores.
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    1. Ignacio Vélez-Pareja & Joseph Tham, 2006. "An Embarrassment of Riches: Winning Ways to Value with the WACC," Economic Analysis Working Papers (2002-2010). Atlantic Review of Economics (2011-2016), Colexio de Economistas de A Coruña, Spain and Fundación Una Galicia Moderna, vol. 5, pages 1-23, February.
    2. Tham, Joseph & Velez-Pareja, Ignacio, 2004. "Principles of Cash Flow Valuation," Elsevier Monographs, Elsevier, edition 1, number 9780126860405.
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    Keywords

    Cash flows; free cash flow; cash flow to equity; valuation; levered value; levered equity value; terminal value; cost of levered equity; cost of unlevered equity;
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    JEL classification:

    • M21 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics - - - Business Economics
    • M40 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - General
    • M41 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Accounting - - - Accounting
    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • G31 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies
    • J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods

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