Pre-work Flashcards
Key decisions under Corporate FInance
- Capital investment strategy and valuation (how much capital, what to invest in)
- FInancial strategy & capital structure (how funds should be raised to maximise value of business to shareholders)
- Distribution strategy (how funds should be distributed to shareholders and in what form)
- FInancial management (Managing CFs to match requirements of investment with requirements of financiers)
- Risk management ( managing financial risk to enhance value and achieve organisation objectives)
Managers of Financial vs Real assets (differences)
- FA: tradeable with transparent prices. Market makers provide liquidity. RA: balance sheet comprises mainly illiquid assets
- FA: investors can invest in part of an issue. RA: risk usually concentrated
- FA: cashflows are contractual. RA: underlying CFs non contractual
- FA: Diversification aids risk reduction. RA: diversification creates negligible value
- FA: Generally able to statistically measure risk. RA: limited ability to measure most risks due to limited observations, linkages and causal relationships
Cash Flow from Operating Activities (Core Business)
- Inflows
- Outflows
Inflows: - cash collected from customers - interest and dividends received - sale proceeds from trading activities (WATCH: accountants often put interest under Operating)
Outflows
- Cash paid to employees and suppliers
- Cash paid for other expenses
- taxes paid
Cashflow from Investing Activities (Long lived assets)
- Inflows
- Outflows
Inflows
- sales proceeds from fixed assets
- sale proceeds from debt and equity investments
- principal received from loans made to others
Outflows
- acquisition of fixed assets
- acquisition of debt and equity investments
- loans made to others
Cashflow from financing activities (debt & equity)
- inflows
- outflows
Inflows
- proceeds from issuance of debt
- proceeds from issuing stock
Outflows
- repayment of debt principal
- repurchase of shares
- dividends paid to shareholders
Net Cash flow =
Net cash flow = CFO + CFI + CFF = Change in Cash
2 ways to calculate cashflows poo and farts
- Direct (extract data direct from cash account)
2. Indirect (Use NPAT as a starting point and add back non cash adjustments (eg depreciation and working capital)
Accounts receivable at end of period = ?
Cash collections = ?
Net operating working capital = ?
Accounts receivable at end of period = Acc Rec @ start + revenue during the period - cash collections during period
Cash collections = Revenue during period + Acc Rec (start) - Acc Rec (end)
Net operating working capital = Inventories + Acc Rec - Acc Payable
(note increases in net working cap absorb cash while decreases will release cash)
interest expense: converting from financial statement version to value oriented version:
- interest expense is often included in CFO rather than CFF under accounting stds. This mixes up operating and finance flows
- therefore move it from operating to finance by ADDING BACK AFTER TAX INTEREST EXPENSE (interest expense x (1-t)) and transfer it to FINANCE
- after tax net interest = net interest expense x (1-t)
working capital: why exclude cashflow?
working capital = CA - CL
- cash is excluded because mmt in value of cash & cash equiv is what we are trying to explain
- ST debt and the current portion of LT debt are excluded - these are interest bearing debt, therefore financing rather than operating items
Provisions:
- need to adjust provisions to calculate cashflow
- created via non cash expenses in income statement
- add back provisions to income.
- provisions result in a non cash gain in income statement
Advantages of using cashflows for valuations rather than profits: (4)
Advantages of valuations using CFs rather than profits:
- CF are objective (not impacted by different accounting policies)
- CF reflect actual timing impact (accounting smooths out fluctuations over time
- CFs measure what is avail for distribution to shareholders and other financing
- Models based on CFs are most consistent with concept of shareholder value
Operating Free Cashflow Model
OFCF model:
- uses CF generated by operations area of company, less operational reinvestment requirements
- OFCF = CFO - Investing CFs
- should always be calculated on an ungeared basis (ie add back after tax expense)
- can avoid interest calc by starting with EBITDA or EBIT
- To value an asset using OFCF; discount OFCF by the WACC. The PV then measures the value of the project
- PV of CFs = sum of OFCF(t) / ((1+k(t)) ^ t)
(where k= WACC)
- can simplify forecasts by assuming a terminal value.
- PV CFs = sum of OFCF(t) / ((1+k(t)) ^ t) + Terminal Value / ((1+k(F)) ^ F)
Equity Free Cash Flow Model
Equity Free Cash Flow
- OFCF minus debt related CF = cashflows available for shareholders
Valuations:
Value of assets =
Equity =
Value of assets = Equity + interest bearing debt
Equity = Value of Assets - Interest Bearing Debt
Enterprise Value
Enterprise value = MV of company’s operations
= Operating Assets less Operating Liabilities
Enterprise value = Net Operating Assets = equity value + interest bearing debt
after tax = ?
tax paid = ?
net tax provisions = ?
after tax = ungeared tax paid
tax paid = tax expense - (net tax provisions(t) - net tax provisions (t-1))
net tax provisions = provision for income tax + provision for deferred income taxes - provision for future tax benefits
Expected cashflows -
- why
- how
- purpose
Expected cashflows -
- why: incorporate project specific risk (CAPM prices systematic risk to required return, but does not account for project specific risk)
- how: estimate, rather than formal calculation. SUpplement with sensitivity and scenario analysis
- purpose: incorporate potential outcomes into single measure; if prob distn of cfs is asymmetric, can properly weight; assessment of possible risk outcomes, reduces chance of unrealistic base case
Terminal Value
- terminal value estimates value on last day of forecast period and needs to be discounted back to T=0
- alternatives = ?
Terminal value: Alternatives: 1. liquidate business (salvage value) 2. assumed sale of business at end (estimated sale price) 3. going concern (use continuing value)