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Session 14 (MBA): To NPV and beyond..
We started today's class by looking at mutually exclusive investments and why NPV and IRR may give you different answers: a project can have more tha…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Valuation Modeling: Excel as a tool
Excel is a powerful tool, but in our zeal to test out its many powers, we often overuse, and spend far too much time thinking about modeling and too …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 15 (Undergraduate): NPV vs IRR, Side Costs and Side Benefits
We started today's class by looking at whether you should hedge risk and came to a mixed conclusion about when it makes sense. We closed the investme…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Too Big a Risk? Catastrophic Risks in Business and Investing
Whilet businesses and investors are continuously exposed to many risks, there is a sub-category of risks that are rare, but if they do occur, can hav…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 13 (MBA): Time Weighted CF returns, Uncertainty and Equity Analysis
In today's session, we started by looking at two time-weighed cash flow returns, the NPV and IRR. We then looked at three tools for dealing with unce…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 7: Implied and Country Equity Risk Premiums
Thi's class was spent talking mostly about equity risk premiums. The key theme to take away is that equity risk premiums don't come from models or hi…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 14 (Undergraduate): Time Weighted Returns and Equity Analysis
In today's session, we started by looking at two measures of time-weighted cash flow returns, NPV and IRR. We then looked at three tools for dealing …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 7 (Val MBAs): Cost of Capital Closure and First Steps on cash flows
In this class, we started by completing our rationale for using bottom up betas, instead of a single regression beta, and continued with the cost of …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 12 (MBA): Earnings to Cash flows to Incremental Cash Flows
In this session, we started by stating our ideal measure of return: it should be based upon cash flows, focus on just the incremental and be time wei…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Session 9 (Val Undergrads): More on cash flows
In this session, we began by looking at broad definitions of cash flows, before embarking on updating, normalizing and cleaning up accounting earning…
1 month, 3 weeks ago