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Cost of Capital and Cash Flows for SMEs

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  • Ignacio Vélez-Pareja

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This practical paper recognizes the need for non-traded companies, most of them SMEs, (Small and Medium-size Enterprises), to have appropriate tools to address the definition and estimation of the cost of capital. This concept is critical to determine the feasibility of an investment and cash flow valuation. It suggests some options to calculate an estimate. These range from classic known Capital Asset Pricing Model CAPM to the most heterodox disciplined based on subjective estimates. The basis of all these solutions is the idea that any interest rate has three components: inflation, real interest rates and risk. The fundamental difference between them is how to estimate the appropriate risk level for each case. The great difficulty of this estimation process is that there is no reliable benchmark as to what should be the appropriate level of risk. In the absence of such a reference point, we can say with high confidence, we do not know which one is the best one. En este trabajo práctico se plantea la necesidad de las empresas no transadas en bolsa, la mayoría de ellas, PYMEs, (Pequenas y Medianas Empresas) de contar con herramientas apropiadas para abordar la definición y estimación del costo promedio ponderado de capital. Este concepto es crítico para definir la conveniencia o no de una inversión y la valoración de flujos de caja. Se plantean algunas opciones para calcular un estimativo. Estas van desde las clásicas conocidas del Capital Asset Pricing Model CAPM, hasta las más heterodoxas basadas en estimaciones subjetivas disciplinadas. Todas estas soluciones se basan en la idea que cualquier tasa de interés tiene tres componentes: la inflación, la tasa real de interés y el riesgo. La diferencia fundamental entre ellas radica en cómo estimar el nivel de riesgo apropiado para cada caso. La gran dificultad de este proceso de estimación es que no hay un valor de referencia confiable en cuanto a cuál debe ser ese nivel de riesgo apropiado. Al no existir ese punto ¿la estimada por cualquiera de estos métodos que se presentan o la verdadera que no conocemos?

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  • Ignacio Vélez-Pareja, 2013. "Cost of Capital and Cash Flows for SMEs," Proyecciones Financieras y Valoración 10983, Master Consultores.
  • Handle: RePEc:col:000463:010983
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    Keywords

    Cost of capital; systematic risk and total risk; SMEs; non-traded firms; Costo de capital; riesgo sistemático y riesgo total; PYMES; firmas no transadas en bolsa.;
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    JEL classification:

    • G12 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Asset Pricing; Trading Volume; Bond Interest Rates
    • N26 - Economic History - - Financial Markets and Institutions - - - Latin America; Caribbean
    • D92 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Intertemporal Firm Choice, Investment, Capacity, and Financing
    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G31 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies

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