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Cost of Capital Closure + First Steps on Cash Flows

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1:19:56·2025·undergraduate level

This session addresses the computation of the cost of debt, debt ratios, and the treatment of hybrid securities within a corporate valuation framework. It then introduces free cash flow analysis, distinguishing various types of cash flows and their implications for firm valuation.

In this session, we started with the cost of debt and computing debt ratios for companies and how to deal with hybrid securities.. If you are interested in getting updated default spreads (on the cheap or free), try the Federal Reserve site in St. Louis: These are spreads on indices created by rating, updated daily. Neat, right? For an even more detailed albeit less user-friendly space, try the NAIC and once you are on the site, go to search and type in F&G current spreads. The most updated version I found looks like this: They update every month, though it takes them about six weeks after the month ends to do this. We then moved on to earnings and cash flow’s and after a introduction to cash flows, I promised you a link to the post on Microsoft where I talk about the differences in free cash flows: We ended the class by noting that leases are debt, and while accountants should always treated them as such, they came to their senses in 2019. Start of the class test: Post class solution:

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