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Session 12 (Undergraduate): Show me the money (Measuring Investment Returns)
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Today's class represented a transition from hurdle rates to measuring returns. We started by completing the last pieces of the cost of capital puzzle: coming up with market values for equity (easy for a publicly traded company) and debt (more difficult). We then began our discussion of returns by emphasizing that the bottom line in corporate finance is cash flows, not earnings, that we care about when those cash flows occur and that we try to bring in all side costs and benefits into those cash flows. Defining investments broadly to include everything from acquisitions to big infrastructure investments to changing inventory policy, we set the table for investment analysis by setting up the Rio Disney investment.
Slides: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/podcasts/cfUGspr16/Session12.pdf
Post class test: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/postclass/session12atest.pdf
Post class test solution: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/pdfiles/cfovhds/postclass/session12asoln.pdf
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