Monday, August 9, 2010

Chapter 11 study guide

ESTIMATING CASH FLOWS FOR CAPITAL BUDGETING

Topical review
  • Identify and calculate relevant after-tax cash flows from a project
    • Initial outlays
    • Estimate of depreciation using MACRS (use tables on p. 469) - include shipping and installation
    • Operating cash flows (NOPAT, depreciation) - work through mini-income statement
    • Investment and changes in working capital
    • Terminal cash flows (salvage) including release of WC - potential tax effects of selling fixed assets
  • Other issues in estimating cash flow
    • Incremental free cash flows
    • Externalities, such as cannibalization/synergies
    • Opportunity and sunk costs
    • Ignore interest costs - already accounted for in WACC
  • Discuss methods that are used to measure stand-alone risk of projects including advantages and disadvantages of the approaches
    • Sensitivity analysis - what if one variable changes
    • Scenario analysis - vary several inputs to determine best/worst outcomes
    • Monte Carlo analysis - let computer generate scenarios
  • Identify types of real options available in capital budgeting projects when managers can influence the cash flows of a project
Definitions
  • Components of after-tax cash flows: initial outlay, operating cash flows, terminal cash flows, salvage, depreciation, externalities, cannibalization, synergies, opportunity costs, sunk costs, 
  • Risk analysis: stand-alone risk, corporate risk, market risk, sensitivity analysis, scenario analysis, Monte Carlo analysis
  • Real options: growth option, abandonment option, timing option, flexibility option
Basic numerical problems from textbook

ST-1, #3, 6

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