Working Capital Strategy
The annual “REL/CFO Working Capital Survey” made its debut in 1997. The magazine identifies working capital management as one of the key issues facing financial executives in the 21st century …
In our world ‘the best possible analysis’ means that we have a model ‘good enough’ to describe the business under study. The question then is – do we need to take into account the uncertainties that always will be inherent in its operations and markets? And if we have to, is it possible?
The uncertainty about the future yearly Pax is quite high. With this as the backcloth for airport planning the stochastic nature of Pax forecasts has to be taken into account when investment decisions are to be made.
Traditionally, when estimating costs, project value, equity value or budgeting, one number is generated – a single point estimate.
Most companies have some sort of model describing the company’s operations. They are mostly used for budgeting, but in some cases also for forecasting cash flow and other important performance measures.
Calculating Wacc for a company for a number of years into the future is not a trivial task. Wacc is no longer a single value, but a time series with values varying from year to year.