Session 11: Equity Valuation: Industry and Company Analysis in a Global Context Reading 39: Valuation in Emerging Markets
LOS a: Describe how inflation affects the estimation of cash flows for a company domiciled in an emerging market.
In order to properly measure the cash flows of an emerging market company to consider the impact of inflation, one starts the process by constructing the:
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historical financial statements using the temporal method. | |
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forecasted financial statements using the current method. | |
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historical and forecasted financial statements in both nominal and real terms. | |
Construct historical and forecasted financial statements in both nominal and real terms. Historical financial statements are translated to real terms by using the current method. Forecasted financial statements in real terms are then created and then converted to nominal terms. Finally, calculate the nominal cash flows and convert them to real terms. |