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Chapter12. Cash Flow Estimation and Risk Analysis* Conceptual issues in cash flow estimation1) Cash flows for capital budgeting vs. Accounting income=arbitrary2) Timing ~ end of the year3) Incremental cash flows from the specific project under considerationa. Expansion and replacement project ~ additional instead of total cash flowsb. NO sunk costs to be included. E.g., A survey costc. Opportunity costs to be included. E.g., $2m market value piece of landd. Externalities should be considered: within the firm (negative (e.g., cannibalization) and positive (complementary) and outside of the firm (e.g., pollution)*Calculating a project’s cash flows - Initial Investment ~ Co=-IO-Intermediate Cash Flows ~ Gross Margin – Operating expenses including depreciation = EBIT, EBIT – Taxes = NOPAT (Net Operating Profit After Tax), NOPAT + Depreciation = Operating Cash Flows (note that NOPAT is different from Net Earnings)Aside) Depreciation schedule ~ depreciation reduces EBIT & NOPAT subsequently. However, the depreciation amount is added to NOPAT to determine the operating cash flows. MACRS (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System – accelerated depreciationmethod) produces a better cash flow stream. Also note that NOPAT does not include financial cash flows like interest expenses as they are captured by the discount rate (WACC=r).-Terminal value, if exists ~ to be added to determine the final period cash flow Cn = the last period Operating Cash flow + Terminal value (after-tax salvage value, recovery of NOWC (Net Operating Working Capital), etc)Aplia #3) Terminal value consists of the recovery of NOWC. Also need toconsider the difference in depreciation amounts between the new and old machines.The after-tax cash flow selling the equipment = If the equipment is sold abovethe book value, the firm needs to pay tax for any profit above the book value.=Book Value + Profit*(1-T).Aside) If the equipment is sold below the book value, the firm gets a taxcredit for the loss. In this case, Sale Price + Loss*T* Expansion Project (p. 369 – p. 372)* Replacement Analysis (p. 372 – p. 374)* Evaluating risk in capital budgeting (pp.374-379)-Types of risks1) Stand-alone risk ~ only one project. No diversification. This risk can be measuredby standard deviation as the ups and downs of this project directly affect thefirm and the shareholders.2) Corporate risk ~ the firm already has a few existing projects. Need toconsiderhow this new project performance will be related to the performance of the existingprojects. We can use correlation coefficients to measure the risk. As the projectis highly positively correlated with the existing projects, the less is the diversificationeffect and the greater the corporate risk.3) Systematic risk measured by beta ~ the firm already has a lot ofexisting projects and this new one will be just one of them. In this case, only thesystematic risk (the degree this project performance is related to the ups anddowns of the entire economy) measured by beta would be relevant.- Measuring Stand-alone risk1) Sensitivity analysis ~ what if approach. Allow the value of only one variable tochange and see how the outcome varies. Excel can be used to do this analysis2) Scenario analysis ~ Worst case, Best case, and possibly, neutral casebased on different scenarios.3) Monte Carlo ~ expanding the scenario analysis to get the outcomes for allpossible scenarios.* Real Options (Abandonment options) Table 12-3 p.384In the worst case, the firm may be better off by closing down the business (or project) instead of keeping it. When you close down the business, you may havean improved cash flow from the sale of business.Given the scenario, Can you calculate E(NPV)? However, according to the question, you have an option to abandon the projectin the worst case scenario and reduce the loss. Cash flow from selling the projectNew E(NPV) using this abandonment option for the worst caseThe value of an abandonment option is the difference between new E(NPV)and the old E(NPV).An option, whatever option it may be (real, stock, or even a rain check), nevertakes a value away from you, as it doesn’t do any harm to you. It is always good to have an option, as you have an option of not using (exercising) the option.* The Optimal Capital Budgeting (p.


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