BFN 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Free Cash Flow, Tunxis Community College, Leveraged Buyout
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Cash paid and received from buying and selling of goods and services. Not good quality source of cash cash paid and received from investment activities (bonds, stocks, property, equipment) Cash paid and received from financing activities (dividends, borrowing or issuing stocks, repayment or issuing debt) Minus: capital expenditures (required to maintain the productive capacity of the firm) Minus: dividends (needed to maintain the necessary payout on common stock and to cover any preferred stock obligation) Fcf represents cash available for special financial activities. Free cash flow in reviewed to determine if there are sufficient excess funds to pay back the loan associated with leveraged buy-outs. Corporate taxes vary by province, by type of business and by size of business. Cash flows after-tax are most relevant for decision making. After-tax investment income paid to shareholders to other individuals varies depending upon the form of the income. Expenses deductible from taxable income provide a tax shield (tax savings)