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• Since there is a mortgage outstanding on this date of $57,000, brother-sister’s equity
stake in the business is worth $683,358 = $740,358 - $57,000.
Not bad for a year’s work!
Technical comment: mid-year discounting
In Chapter 4, section000, we discussed the concept of mid-year discounting to account
for the fact that cash flows occur throughout the year and not at year’s end. Mid-year
discounting assumes that the annual cash flows occur in mid-year, and not at year’s end.
Had Brother and Sister valued their firm by using mid-year discounting, they would have
concluded that the equity value of the Anytown Travel Services was $761,985:
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Date FCF
dditional capex Residual value Total
31-Dec-04 206,658 206,658
31-Dec-05 206,658 -40,000 166,658
31-Dec-06 206,658 206,658
31-Dec-07 206,658 206,658
31-Dec-08 206,658 -40,000 166,658
31-Dec-09 206,658 206,658
31-Dec-10 206,658 102,176 308,834
Discount rate 30%
Enterprise value =
PV of future free cash flows
639,549 <-- =NPV(B11,E3:E9)*(1+B11)^0.5
Add back cash balances
on 31 December 2003
179,436
Asset value of firm,
31 December 2003
818,985
Debt on 31 December 2003 57,000 <-- Outstanding mortgage
Value of equity 761,985 <-- =B15-B16
ANYTOWN TRAVEL SERVICES (ATS), INC.
Valuation assuming mid-year discounting