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FREE CASH FLOW [3 records]

Record 1 2017-03-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
OBS

free cash flow margin: term extracted from the “Glossaire de l’économie” and reproduced with permission of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
OBS

marge financière disponible; marge de trésorerie disponible : termes extraits du «Glossaire de l’économie» et reproduits avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Financial and Budgetary Management
DEF

Gross cash flow generated by a company over a given period of time after subtracting the net increase in fixed asset investment and labour costs, used to value companies.

CONT

FCF [free cash flow] takes into account not only the earnings of the company but also the past (depreciation) and present capital expenditures, capital inflows and investment in working capital.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion budgétaire et financière
DEF

Somme égale au flux de trésorerie d'exploitation de la période moins les dépenses en immobilisations effectuées au cours de la même période, et correspondant aux liquidités qui restent à la fin de la période considérée une fois que l'on a pourvu à toutes les dépenses nécessaires, y compris les investissements, et qui reviennent aux bailleurs de fonds (créanciers et actionnaires) de l'entreprise.

OBS

L'emprunt «free cash flow» est souvent utilsé en français.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión presupuestaria y financiera
DEF

Flujo de caja bruto que genera una sociedad durante un determinado período al que se resta el aumento neto en inversiones de inmovilizado y en fondo de maniobra. Se utiliza en valoración de empresas, descontado a una determinada tasa de interés y de riesgo, ya que se considera que es el mejor reflejo de lo que un inversor puede obtener de una empresa.

OBS

flujo de caja libre: término y definición extraídos del CAPITAL Business Dictionary con la autorización de LID Editorial Empresarial.

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Record 3 2010-06-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Corporate Economics
CONT

In the period 1979-1985, the petroleum industry provides a unique test of the agency theory of corporate restructuring. Background material is provided on the industry's corporate restructuring, along with an elaboration of the free cash flow hypothesis that underlies the agency theory. ... The exploration expenditure decision is specified as following from 3 models: a neoclassical investment model and pure and hybrid variants of free cash flow hypotheses. ... The size of the parameter estimates implies that the free cash flow hypothesis does not fully explain the restructuring gains.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie de l'entreprise

Spanish

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