The new edition of "Cost of Capital: Estimation and Applications, Third Edition" includes new materials on using the Duff & Phelps' Risk Premium Report data on size and fundamental risk, new chapters on cost of capital issues for financial reporting and transfer pricing, updated discussion of Cost of Capital in the Courts with comprehensive set of case references, and Reconciling Cost of Capital among various forms of the Income Approach and expanded material reconciling the Income Approach with Valuation Multiples in the Market Approach. Throughout, there are new quotes and citation to relevant material.
Introduction.Notation.Part I. Cost of Capital Basics.1. Defining Cost of Capital2. Introduction to Cost of Capital Applications: Valuation and Project Selection.3. Net cash flow: The Preferred Measure of Return.4. Discounting versus Capitalizing.5. Relationship between Risk and Cost of Capital.6. Cost Components of a Company's Capital Structure.7. Weighted Average or Overall Cost of Capital.Appendix 7.1. Iterative Process Using CAPM to Calculate the Cost of Equity component of the Weighted Average Cost of Capital - Constant Capital Structure.Appendix7.2. Iterative process using CAPM to calculate the cost of Equity component of the weighted average cost of capital - changing capital structure.Part II. Estimating the Cost of Equity Capital "As If Publicly Traded".8. Equity Risk Premium.8.1 Appendix.9. Build-up models.10. Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM).11. Proper Use of Beta.12. Criticisms of CAPM and Beta versus Other Risk Measures.13. Size Effect.14. Criticisms of Size Effect.14.1 Appendix.15. D&P Risk Study.16. Alternative models to the Build-Up and CAPM models Fama-French, APT, Market derived capital pricing model, Yield-Spread Model.17. DCF Method.18. Global Cost of Capital models.19. Using Morningstar/Ibbotson Associates Cost of Capital Data.Part III. Corporate Financial Officers - Using Cost of Capital Data.20. Capital Budgeting and Feasibility Studies.21. Cost of capital for divisions/reporting units.22. Cost of capital in valuing acquisition/merger.23. Cost of capital in transfer pricing.24. Cost of capital in Economic Value Added Financial Management System.Part IV. Cost of Capital for Closely-Held Entities.25. Handling the Discount for Lack of Marketability For Operating Businesses.26. The Private Company Discount.27. Pass-through Entities: Partnerships LLCs and S corps.27.1 Appendix.28. Private Investment Companies.29. Venture Capital InvestmentsPart V. Other Topics.30. Minority versus Control Implications of the Cost of Capital Data.31. How Cost of Capital Relates to Excess Earnings Method.32. Adjusting the discount rate to alternative economic Income Measures.33. Equivalence With Alternative Cash Flow Methods For Valuing Companies.34. Common Errors In Estimation and Use of Cost of Capital.35. Cost of Capital In the Courts.Part VI. Real Estate and Ad Valorem.36. Cost of Capital For Real Estate Investments.36.1 Appendix. Valuing Real Property.37. REITs.37.1 Appendix.38. Cost of capital in Ad Valorem Taxation.Part VII. Advice to Practitioners.39. Dealing with Cost of Capital Issues - Advice from the Authors.40. Cross Examining Experts On Cost of CapitalAppendices.Appendix A. Bibliography.Appendix B. Data Sources.Appendix C. International Glossary of Business Valuation Terms.Appendix D. Roger Grabowski's Cost of Capital Section in Kohler Report.Appendix E. Developing Cost of Capital (Capitalization Rates and Discount Rates) Using ValuSource Valuation Software.Index.
