Construction projects are complex and risky. According to the literature, even profitable construction companies can fail due to poor cash flow. In order to survive in this rapidly changing environment, effective cash flow management is essential. Many unforeseen factors affect a construction project’s cash flow. The objective of the research presented in this paper is to examine the impact of ...

A common method of valuing the equity in leveraged transactions is the flows-toequity method whereby the free cash flow available to equity holders is discounted at the cost of equity. This method uses a standard definition of equity free cash flow, but the cost of equity varies over time as leverage varies. Various formulas can be used to calculate the time-varying cost of equity, most of whic...

Effective project management requires reliable knowledge of cash required in different stages of project life cycle. Getting this knowledge is highly dependent on sophisticated consideration of project environment. Nature of projects and their environments are associated with uncertain conditions. In this paper, a new project cash flow assessment method based on project scheduling is proposed t...

SUMMARY The Myers-Cohn Net Present Value model and NCCI's IRR model are the two leading cash flow models used in ratemaking. This paper presents simple parameter and structural changes which demonstrate their equivalency. The " fair " premium produced by both models is shown to be identical given rational and consistent rules for setting parameter values, control of the flow of surplus, and dis...

This paper, using 833 observations of listed Japanese firms between the years 1992 to 2000, explore the implications of the free cash flow hypothesis concerning the disciplinary role of ownership structure in corporate capital structure policy. The results show (1) The relation between leverage and free cash flow are significantly positive and greater for low-growth firms than for the high-grow...

Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of digital services on the Internet, from Google and Wikipedia to Facebook and YouTube. However, the value of these innovations is difficult to quantify, because consumers pay nothing to use them. We develop a new framework to measure the value of free services using the insight that even when people do not pay cash, they must still pay “attenti...

the current study aims to review the cross sectional variation in cash flow asymmetric timeliness and its effect on conditional conservatism. in this study, data from 120 firms in tehran stock exchange for the period spanning 1384- 1390 were examined. the regression model used in this research is panel data method with fixed effects approach. the most common measure of conditional conservatism ...