Cash Flows and Pro Formas

Cash Flows and Pro Formas
Author: Robert S. Harris
Publisher:
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2008
Genre:
ISBN:

This note links pro forma forecasting of financial statements with project valuation of cash flows. Students are shown the link among income statements, balance sheets, and cash flows. The exercise affords practice in forecasting and project analysis, including effects of inflation, changes in working-capital requirements, and calculation of a discount rate.

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation
Author: Joseph Tham
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2004-02-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0126860408

The authors strive to 'close the gap' between the two main approaches to cash flow valuation - from financial statements to cash flows, and from cash flows to financial statements - by presenting the principles in a clear and systematic fashion.

Cash Flow Forecasting

Cash Flow Forecasting
Author: Andrew Fight
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2005-10-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0080492533

Budgets are like road maps -- they provide a direction for a corporates financial management. Balance sheets and statements of revenues also provide insights into how well a company is following that direction. But cash flow and cash flow forecasts are what guide the day-to-day itinerary for an organization. Budgets and cash flow are dynamic -- adjustments and changes can and should occur. If you understand what you are looking at, you can use cash flow to create better budgets and thus more accurate cash flow forecasting.Cash Flow Forecasting outlines the techniques required to undertake a detailed analysis of the cash flow dynamics of the business from both a historical and forward looking perspective. Cash Flow Forecasting explains how to: * Determine appropriate cash flow figures from pro forma financial statements * Interpret detailed cash flow forecasts and understand the difference between profit and cash flow * Conserve or generate cash in the short term * Evaluate different methods of project evaluation * Recognize the limitations of accounting information in valuing companies*Inspired by basic entry level training courses that have been developed by major international banks worldwide* Will enable students and those already in the finance profession to gain an understanding of the basic information and principles of cash flow forecasting* Includes questions with answers, study topics, practical "real world" examples and extensive bibliography

How to Prepare Pro Forma Financial Statements

How to Prepare Pro Forma Financial Statements
Author: Michael Worthington
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-01-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983443664

Pro forma financial statements are essential elements of a business plan. This accounting worksheet approach provides a practical, step-by-step method to prepare the statements. Using an e-spreadsheet application automates the process, making it simpler, faster, and more accurate. First prepare all of the other sections of the business plan: Executive Summary, Business Description, Products or Services, Market Study, Organizational Structure, Financial Plan, and Personnel Resum�s. Then the pro forma financial statements translate the other components of the business plan into quantitative tables. There are three pro forma financial statements: (1) Income Statement & Changes in Owner's Equity, (2) Balance Sheet, and (3) Cash Flow. The statements are prepared month by month for the first fiscal year, and then by quarters for subsequent years. The pro forma statements allow the entrepreneur to tinker with the assumptions in the business plan: sales price, expenses, investments, etc. Once the statements are set up in an e-spreadsheet, changes in any assumption cascade through the whole worksheet. The statements are also crucial elements of business plans presented to potential investors or lenders. An e-spreadsheet approach makes it possible to create attractive, informative pro forma financial statements.

The Free Cash Flow Approach

The Free Cash Flow Approach
Author: Ralph Johann
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2008-09
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3640159764

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject Business economics - General, grade: 1.3, California State University, Fullerton, course: Theory of Corporate Finance, 21 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper will deal with the procedure and implementations of firm/stock valuation using FCF approach and WACC - the weighted average cost of capital. On the road, the different approaches and methods of firm valuation, the various inputs of WACC and the final procedure finding the fair market value of the firm using Pro Forma Financial Statements, will be discussed. In this valuation method the two main parts contributing to the final value of the firm are Free Cash Flows (FCF) and the weighted average cost of capital. It is then used the time value of money concept along with some educated guesses about the long term sales growth rate and the long term WACC to apply common capital budgeting rules of project evaluation. Besides that, the paper will shortly discuss the influence of capital structure on a firm's value. It will come out that there is a difference in value whether the company is leveraged and uses debt or not. When it comes to the different inputs of the WACC, a main focus will be on the required rate of return for shareholders. Finding the 'right' beta and an appropriate estimate for the market risk premium are the main issues of that part. Therefore, the CAPM model and its specific determinants will be analyzed. Thereafter, the nature of pro forma financial statements and the different parts of them will be defined. It will be described how the 'free cash flows' are determined and how that leads to the actual valuation procedure. Finally, the paper will focus on the terminal value as probably the most important and affecting part of the calculated firm value and its nature as a perpetuity in an investing perspective. The conclusion will finally deal with a critical assessment of the firm valuation process with the FCF method.

Valuation

Valuation
Author: George Chacko
Publisher: FT Press
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2014-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0132905272

Master corporate valuation: the financial art and science of accurately valuing any business. George Chacko's Applied Corporate Finance: Valuation is the first valuation book to combine true academic rigor with the practical skills you need to successfully value companies in the real world. Renowned financial instructor and investment manager George Chacko focuses on concepts, techniques, tools, and methodologies that lead directly to accurate valuations, and explains each key concept with up-to-date examples. One step at a time, Chacko develops a practical, rigorous approach to conducting valuation, addressing the projection of financial statements, calculation of free cash flows, risk-adjusted cost of capital, and leading methodologies including WACC, flow-to-equity, and Adjusted Present Value (APV). By avoiding elementary content that financial managers, analysts, and MBA-level finance students already know, this book can focus more tightly on the realistic techniques and advanced issues practitioners are actually concerned with. Coverage includes: market value and accounting balance sheets, cash cycles, the DuPont formula, financial distress, and capital as a risk buffer; constructing pro-formas, projecting and bridging financing shortfalls, and planning sustainable growth; sources/uses of cash, cash income statements, pro-forma balance sheet changes, working capital, depreciation, and capital expenditures; risk-free cost, investment risks, and diversifiable vs. idiosyncratic risks; NPV, APV, Optimal Debt Ratios, Capital Structure Dynamics, Terminal Value Calculations, and more. For all finance professionals, analysts, and MBA students who need to sharpen their skills in valuation and related areas of corporate finance, accounting, or strategic planning.

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation
Author: Joseph Tham
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre:
ISBN:

Principles of Cash Flow Valuation, published by Academic Press, Elsevier, in 2004, is the only book available that focuses exclusively on cash flow valuation, with a special emphasis on the Capital Cash Flow (CCF) approach.This text provides a comprehensive and practical, market-based framework for the valuation of finite cash flows derived from a set of integrated financial statements, namely, the income statement, balance sheet, and cash budget. The authors have distilled the essence of years of gathering academic wisdom in the study of cash flow analysis and the cost of capital. Their work should go a long way toward bridging the gap between the application of cost benefit analysis and the theory of capital budgeting.This book covers the basic concepts in market-based cash flow valuation. Topics include the tme value of money (TVM) and an introduction to cost of capital; basic review of financial statements and accounting concepts; construction of integrated pro-forma financial statements; derivation of free cash flows; use of the WACC in theory and in practice; estimating the WACC for non traded firms; calculating the terminal value beyond the planning period. It also revisits the theory for cost of capital and explains how cash flows are valued in reality. The ideas are illustrated using examples and a case study. The presentation is appropriate for a range of technical backgrounds.This text will be of interest to finance professionals as well as MBA and other graduate students in finance.

Construction of Free Cash Flows

Construction of Free Cash Flows
Author: Ignacio Velez-Pareja
Publisher:
Total Pages: 14
Release: 2002
Genre:
ISBN:

This is the second part of a paper where the construction of the free cash flow is studied. Usually a great deal of effort is given in typical financial textbooks to the mechanics of the calculations of time value of money equivalencies: payments, future values, present values, etc. This is necessary. However less or no effort is devoted to how to arrive at the figures required to calculate the Net Present Value NPV or the Internal Rate of Return, IRR. In Part I, a procedure for projecting pro forma financial statements (Balance Sheet (BS), Profit and Loses Statement (Pamp;L) and Cash Budget (CB) is presented. From the CB, the Free Cash Flow FCF, the Cash Flow to Equity CFE and the Cash Flow to Debt CFD, are derived. Emphasis is done to the reasons why some items found in the Pamp;L and CB are no included in the FCF. Also, the FCF and the CFD are calculated with the typical approach found in the literature: from the Pamp;L and it is specified how to construct them. In doing this, working capital is redefined: the result is that it has to include and exclude some items that are not taken into account in the traditional methods. In Part II a comparison between the proposed method to construct the above-mentioned cash flows and the ones found in the current and typical textbooks is presented. Textbooks studied include Blank and Tarquin, 1998, Brealey, Myers and Marcus 1995, Copeland et.al. 1995, Damodaran, 1996, Gallaher and Andrew, 2000, and Weston and Copeland, 1992.

Construction of Cash Flows Revisited

Construction of Cash Flows Revisited
Author: Ignacio Velez-Pareja
Publisher:
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2005
Genre:
ISBN:

Usually a great deal of effort is devoted in typical financial textbooks to the mechanics of the calculations of time value of money equivalencies: payments, future values, present values, etc. This is necessary. However little or no effort is devoted to how to arrive at the figures required to calculate the Net Present Value NPV or Internal Rate of Return, IRR. In the paper, pro forma financial statements (Balance Sheet (BS), Income Statement (IS) and Cash Budget (CB) are presented. From the CB, the Free Cash Flow FCF, the Cash Flow to Equity CFE, the Cash Flow to Debt CFD and the Capital Cash Flow are derived. Also, the FCF and the CFE are calculated with the typical approach found in the literature: from the IS and it is specified how to construct them. In doing this, working capital is redefined: the result is that it has to include some items that are not taken into account in the traditional methods.An example is presented to illustrate the procedure to calculate the cash flows. In the Appendixes we show how to arrive to the levered equity and firm value.